Poor Economics A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty

by Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Duflo, Esther

• ISBN13: 9781610390934
• ISBN10: 1610390938
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-03-27
• Publisher: PublicAffairs

Summary

From the award-winning founders of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT: A transformative reappraisal of the world of the extreme poor, their lives, desires, and frustrations

Author Biography

Abhijit Banerjee, winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics, is the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a co-founder and co-director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). In 2011, he was named one of Foreign Policy magazine's top 100 global thinkers. Banerjee served on the U.N. Secretary-General's High-level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Esther Duflo, winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics, is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a co-founder and co-director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). Duflo is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science, and has received numerous academic honors and prizes including the Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences (2015), the Infosys Prize (2014), the Dan David Prize (2013), a John Bates Clark Medal (2010), and a MacArthur "Genius Grant" Fellowship (2009). Duflo is a member of the President's Global Development Council and a Founding Editor of the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, and is currently the editor of the American Economic Review. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Think Again, Again	p. 1
Private Lives
A Billion Hungry People?	p. 19
Low-Hanging Fruit for Better (Global) Health?	p. 41
Top of the Class	p. 71
PakSudarno's Big Family	p. 103
Institutions
Barefoot Hedge-Fund Managers	p. 133
The Men from Kabul and the Eunuchs of India: The (Not So) Simple Economics of Lending to the Poor	p. 157
Saving Brick by Brick	p. 183
Reluctant Entrepreneurs	p. 205
Policies, Politics	p. 235
In Place of a Sweeping Conclusion	p. 267
Acknowledgments	p. 275
Notes	p. 277
Index	p. 295
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