Poor Economics: Rethinking Poverty and the Ways to End it: rethinking poverty & the ways to end it - Softcover

Esther Duflo Abhijit V. Banerjee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8184002807 ISBN 13: 9788184002805

Publisher: Random House, India, 2013

Synopsis

WINNERS OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS 2019

Imagine you have a few billion dollars and want to spend it on the poor. How do you go about it? 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 about the poor and the world that are untested generalizations at best, harmful misperceptions at worst. Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo have pioneered the use of randomized control trials (RCTs) in development economics through their award-winning Poverty Action Lab. They argue that by using RCTs and more generally, by paying careful attention to the evidence, it is possible to make accurate and often startling assessments on what really impacts the poor and what doesn't. Revelatory and impassioned, Poor Economics is a pathbreaking book that will help you to understand the real causes of poverty and how to end it.

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About the Author

Abhijit Banerjee is the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at MIT and the author of Poor Economics. He has been named as one of Foreign Policy magazine's top 100 global thinkers and has served on the U.N. Secretary-General's panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda.

Edition details

• Publisher: Random House, India
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8184002807
• ISBN 13: 9788184002805
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464