Poor economics : a radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty / Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo.
2011
HC59.7 .B323 2011 (Mapit)
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Poor economics : a radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty / Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo.
Author
Banerjee, Abhijit V., 1961-
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9781586487980
1586487981
1586487981
Publication Details
New York : PublicAffairs, c2011.
Language
English
Description
xi, 303 p. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
HC59.7 .B323 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
339.4/6091724
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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Duflo, Esther, 1972-
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