Poor economics : a radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty / Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo.

By:

Banerjee, Abhijit V

Contributor(s):

Duflo, Esther, 1972-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : PublicAffairs, c2011.Edition: 1st edDescription: xi, 303 p. ; 25 cmISBN:

9781610390934 (pbk.)

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DDC classification:

339.46091724 BAN 23 002277

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Table of contents

Contents:

Think again, again A billion hungry people? Low-hanging fruit for better (global) health? Top of the class Pak Sudarno's big family 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.

Summary: "Billions of government dollars, and thousands of charitable organizations and NGOs, are dedicated to helping the world's poor. But much of the work they do is based on assumptions that are untested generalizations at best, flat out harmful misperceptions at worst. Banerjee and Duflo have pioneered the use of randomized control trials in development economics. Work based on these principles, supervised by the Poverty Action Lab at MIT, is being carried out in dozens of countries. Their work transforms certain presumptions: that microfinance is a cure-all, that schooling equals learning, that poverty at the level of 99 cents a day is just a more extreme version of the experience any of us have when our income falls uncomfortably low. Throughout, the authors emphasize that life for the poor is simply not like life for everyone else: it is a much more perilous adventure, denied many of the cushions and advantages that are routinely provided to the more affluent"--

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Think again, again
A billion hungry people?
Low-hanging fruit for better (global) health?
Top of the class
Pak Sudarno's big family
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.

"Billions of government dollars, and thousands of charitable organizations and NGOs, are dedicated to helping the world's poor. But much of the work they do is based on assumptions that are untested generalizations at best, flat out harmful misperceptions at worst. Banerjee and Duflo have pioneered the use of randomized control trials in development economics. Work based on these principles, supervised by the Poverty Action Lab at MIT, is being carried out in dozens of countries. Their work transforms certain presumptions: that microfinance is a cure-all, that schooling equals learning, that poverty at the level of 99 cents a day is just a more extreme version of the experience any of us have when our income falls uncomfortably low. Throughout, the authors emphasize that life for the poor is simply not like life for everyone else: it is a much more perilous adventure, denied many of the cushions and advantages that are routinely provided to the more affluent"--

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