Poor economics : rethinking poverty & the ways to end it
Material type: TextPublication details: Haryana : Vintage Books, ©2011.Description: xv, 442 p. : 23 cmISBN:- 9788184002805
- 339.4609 22 BAN-P
- HC59.7 .B323 2011
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339.4 GUP-D Digital India and the poor : policy, technology and society | 339.46 NOV-B The blue sweater : | 339.46 SUB-P The poverty line | 339.4609 BAN-P Poor economics : | 339.4609 EAS-T The tyranny of experts : | 339.47 TRE-M The making of the consumer : | 339.4709 WIL-C Consumption and the transformation of everyday life : |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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"--
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