02395cam a2200301 a 4500001001100000003000900011005001700020008004100037020001500078020001800093035002100111040006700132050002300199100002500222245011900247250001200366260003900378300002500417504005100442505035700493520100400850650004601854650002401900700002601924942000701950999001501957952012101972b10565607 CY-PaNEU20200628114852.0141118s2011    nyu      b    001 0 eng    a1586487981  a9781586487980  a(OCoLC)317925786  aDLCcDLCdYDXdBTCTAdYDXCPdBWXdCDXdUPZdVP@dSOIdCY-PaNEU00aHC59.7b.B323 20111 aBanerjee, Abhijit V.10aPoor economics :ba radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty /cAbhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo.  a1st ed.  aNew York :bPublicAffairs,cc2011.  axi, 303 p. ;c25 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 aThink 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.  a"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"--cProvided by publisher. 0aEconomic assistancezDeveloping countries 0aPovertyxPrevention1 aDuflo, Esther,d1972-  cBK  c2126d2126  001040708maaCY-PaNEUbCY-PaNEUd2018-11-14l0oHC59.7.B323 2011p3005609r2020-06-28 00:00:00t1w2020-06-28yBK