| Title | : | Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty |
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| Rating | : | 4.54 (571 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1586487981 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2011-04-26 |
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Winner of the 2011 Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Best Business Book of the Year AwardBillions 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
Editorial : Amartya Sen “A marvellously insightful book by two outstanding researchers on the real nature of poverty.”
Steven D. Levitt
InformativeI read it with my 7 year old, easy to understand, and we like it a lot. We've had different trumpet players perform from different parts of the auditorium for a special effect.. Some are humorous, some challenging, some emotionally moving, but they are all woven masterfully into the whole by the author. My private parts are private is a essential book for parents and professionals who work with families. There are also pages that though beautiful, are not quite as intricate with as many tiny details, for those times that you want to color but not in such a perfect fashion. Fantastic! *****
Reviewed by Detra Fitch of Huntress Reviews.. Tracy Walton's book has quickly become an essential piece of my toolbox for curriculum creation and for the simplification of previously complex concepts. So if you are looking for a book with lots of pictures, this is not it. It took decades to get value out of automated looms etc because technical skills to run them were not widesp
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