Overview
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 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 V Banerjee ,
Esther Duflo (Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics Massachusettes Institute of Technology Cambridge Ma USA) ,
Brian Holsopple
Publisher: HighBridge Audio
Imprint: HighBridge Audio
Dimensions:
Width: 13.00cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 14.70cm
Weight: 0.249kg
ISBN: 9781611747515
ISBN 10: 1611747511
Pages: 660
Publication Date: 03 January 2012
Audience:
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Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
Narrator Brian Holsopple's nicely paced, steady reading conveys world poverty in a unique manner and is highly recommended for all university libraries. -- Library Journal [starred review]
[ Poor Economics ] provides an inspirational audio recommended for any economics or nonfiction audio library. Midwest Book Review A refreshingly original take on development. The Guardian In an engrossing new book they draw on some intrepid research and a store of personal anecdotes to illuminate the lives of the 865m people who, at the last count, live on less than $0.99 a day. The Economist Narrator Brian Holsopple s nicely paced, steady reading conveys world poverty in a unique manner and is highly recommended for all university libraries. Library Journal [starred review] [ Poor Economics ] provides an inspirational audio recommended for any economics or nonfiction audio library. -- Midwest Book Review A refreshingly original take on development. -- The Guardian In an engrossing new book they draw on some intrepid research and a store of personal anecdotes to illuminate the lives of the 865m people who, at the last count, live on less than $0.99 a day. -- The Economist Narrator Brian Holsopple's nicely paced, steady reading conveys world poverty in a unique manner and is highly recommended for all university libraries. -- Library Journal [starred review]
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