| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 303 pages) |
| Contents |
Think again, again -- A billion hungry people? -- Low-hanging fruit for better (global) health? -- Top of the class -- Pak Sudarno's big family -- Barefoot hedge-fund managers -- The men from Kabul and the eunuchs of India : the (not so) simple economics of lending to the poor -- Saving brick by brick -- Reluctant entrepreneurs -- Policies, politics |
| 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 |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year |
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Economist Best Book of the Year |
| Subject |
Economic assistance -- Developing countries
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Poverty -- Prevention.
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Economics.
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International cooperation.
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Poverty.
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Economics
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Poverty
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International Cooperation
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Developing Countries
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economics.
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poverty.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Macroeconomics.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions.
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Aide au développement.
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Lutte contre la pauvreté.
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Aide économique.
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Pauvreté.
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Pays en développement.
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Economics.
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International cooperation
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Economics
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Economic assistance
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Poverty -- Prevention
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Armut
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Entwicklungshilfe
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Bekämpfung
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Armoede.
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Ontwikkelingseconomie.
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Armut.
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Entwicklungshilfe.
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Entwicklungszusammenarbeit.
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Economic assistance -- Developing countries.
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Poverty -- Prevention.
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Utvecklingsbistånd.
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Fattigdom -- prevention.
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Foreign aid -- Developing countries.
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Poverty -- Prevention.
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Developing countries
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Entwicklungsländer
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Entwicklungsländer.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Duflo, Esther, 1972-
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| LC no. |
2010050938 |
| ISBN |
9781610390408 |
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1610390407 |
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9781610391603 |
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1610391608 |
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9781280588099 |
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1280588098 |
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9786613095565 |
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6613095567 |
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1586487981 |
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9781586487980 |
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