Overview
Billions of government dollars, and thousands of charitable organizations and NGOs, are dedicated to helping the worlds 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 affect their lives. Their work defies 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. This important book illuminates how the poor live, and offers all of us an opportunity to think of a world beyond poverty.
Full Product Details
Author: Abhijit Banerjee ,
Esther Duflo
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
Imprint: PublicAffairs,U.S.
Dimensions:
Width: 15.90cm
, Height: 2.90cm
, Length: 24.10cm
Weight: 0.526kg
ISBN: 9781586487980
ISBN 10: 1586487981
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 26 April 2011
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Stock Indefinitely
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Reviews
A marvellously insightful book by two outstanding researchers on the real nature of poverty. Amartya Sen, Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics
"""A marvellously insightful book by two outstanding researchers on the real nature of poverty."" Amartya Sen, Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics"""
Author Information
"Abhijit V Banerjee was educated in Kolkata, Delhi and Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at MIT. He is the recipient of many honours and awards, and has been an honourary advisor to many organisations including the World Bank and the Government of India. Esther Duflo is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at MIT. She studied at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, and at MIT, and is the recipient of several important awards including a MacArthur ""Genius"" award (2009) and the John Bates Clark medal awarded annually to the best American economist under 40 (2010). In 2003, Banerjee & Duflo co-founded the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), which they continue to direct."
