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More Than Good Intentions : Improving the Ways the World's Poor Borrow, Save, Farm, Learn, and Stay Healthy

by: Karlan, Dean; Appel, Jacob

More Than Good Intentions : Improving the Ways the World's Poor Borrow, Save, Farm, Learn, and Stay Healthy

by: Karlan, Dean; Appel, Jacob

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9780452297562
ISBN 10:
0452297567
Edition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 03/27/2012
Publisher: Plume

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In this pioneering book Karlan and Appel show how small changes in banking, insurance, health care, and other development initiatives that take into account human irrationality can drastically improve the well-being of poor people everywhere.

AuthorsÆ Note	p. ix
Introduction
The Monks and the Fish	p. 1
To Work Against Poverty
How We Do What We Do	p. 23
To Buy
Doubling the Number of Families with a Safety Net	p. 39
To Borrow
Why the Taxi Driver Didn't Take a Loan	p. 55
To Pursue Happiness
Having Better Things to Do	p. 85
To Cooperate In Groups
What About the Weakness of the Crowd?	p. 109
To Save
The Unfun Option	p. 143
To Farm
Something from Nothing	p. 167
To Learn
The Importance of Showing Up	p. 191
To Stay Healthy
From Broken Legs to Parasites	p. 223
To Mate
The Naked Truth	p. 253
To Give
The Takeaway	p. 269
Notes	p. 277
Acknowledgments	p. 289
Index	p. 295
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More Than Good Intentions : Improving the Ways the World's Poor Borrow, Save, Farm, Learn, and Stay Healthy

More Than Good Intentions : Improving the Ways the World's Poor Borrow, Save, Farm, Learn, and Stay Healthy

9780452297562

0452297567

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