#FromTheArchive: Economic Sciences Laureate Elinor Ostrom receives her prize on 10 December 2009. Ostrom was the first woman to receive the Prize in Economic Sciences. In four days time Esther Duflo will become the second when she collects her own prize in Stockholm. | Nobel Prize

"People live in very different circumstances - and that of course has implications on what they can achieve and what they do with their lives - but at heart we have the same type of strength as human beings." Watch our interview with economist Esther Duflo where we talk about how to increase the number of female economists, how economics and sustainability correlate and how India became her second home. In 2019 Esther Duflo was awarded the Prize in Economic Sciences for her work fighting poverty