Poor economics: a radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty/

Banerjee, Abhijit V.

Poor economics: a radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty/ Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo. - New York : PublicAffairs, c2011. - xi, 303 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Think again, again --
Part I: Private Lives: A billion hungry people? --
Low-hanging fruit for better (global) health? --
Top of the class --
Pak Sudarno's big family --
Part II: Institutions: 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 --
In place of a sweeping conclusion.

9781586487980


Economic assistance--Developing countries.
Poverty--Prevention.

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