Poor Economics A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty

Name: Poor Economics A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
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ISBN: 9781586487980

ISBN-10: 1586487981

ISBN-13: 9781586487980

Edition: 2011

Authors: Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo

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Billions of government dollars, and thousands of charitable organizations and NGOs, are dedicated to helping the world's poor. But much of their work is based on assumptions that are untested generalizations at best, harmful misperceptions at worst. Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo have pioneered the use of randomized control trials in development economics. Work based on these principles, supervised by the Poverty Action Lab, is being carried out in dozens of countries. Drawing on this and their 15 years of research from Chile to India, Kenya to Indonesia, they have identified wholly new aspects of the behavior of poor people, their needs, and the way that aid or financial investment can…

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List price: $31.50
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Publication date: 4/26/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English



Foreword



ThinkAgain, Again



Private Lives



A Billion Hungry People?



Low-Hanging Fruit for Better (Global) Health?



Top of the Class



Pak Sudarno's Big Family



Institutions



Barefoot Hedge-Fund Managers



The Men from Kabul and the Eunuchs of India: The (Not So) Simple Economics of Lending to the Poor



Saving Brick by Brick



Reluctant Entrepreneurs



Policies, Politics


In Place of a Sweeping Conclusion


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index