Poor Economics : A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
ISBN: 9781586487980 | 1586487981
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date: 4/26/2011
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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... MORE
| Foreword | p. vii |
| ThinkAgain, Again | p. 1 |
| Private Lives | |
| A Billion Hungry People? | p. 19 |
| Low-Hanging Fruit for Better (Global) Health? | p. 41 |
| Top of the Class | p. 71 |
| Pak Sudarno's Big Family | p. 103 |
| Institutions | |
| Barefoot Hedge-Fund Managers | p. 133 |
| The Men from Kabul and the Eunuchs of India: The (Not So) Simple Eco... MORE | p. 157 |
| Saving Brick by Brick | p. 183 |
| Reluctant Entrepreneurs | p. 205 |
| Policies, Politics | p. 235 |
| In Place of a Sweeping Conclusion | p. 267 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 275 |
| Notes | p. 277 |
| Index | p. 295 |
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