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Eligibility criteria apply. What causes poverty? This year's economics Nobel Prize winners have spent their careers trying to find out.

There is no sense in which we need to find a silver bullet.

For poverty, we need to find the set of silver pellets that will shoot down all these different enemies.

And dealing with the fallout of Europe's biggest money laundering scandal.

The scale is huge. Nobody knows quite how big because investigations are still going on.

You're listening to Money Talks on Economist Radio.

I'm Rachsharnbogue, the Economist's Europe Economics Correspondent. First up, what causes poverty?

Why does some countries remain poor, while others grow rich?

It's perhaps the most important question in economics

and one of the hardest.

Three economists have fundamentally changed

our understanding of poverty and how it can be remedied.

They've just won a Nobel Prize for it.

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