02065cam a2200325 a 4500 16596027 OSt 20220308151013.0 110103s2011 nyu b 001 0 eng 2010050938 9781586487980 DLC PUL PUL pcc d------ HC 59 .7.B323 2011 339.4/6091724 22 Banerjee, Abhijit V. Poor economics : a radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty / Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo. 1st ed. New York : PublicAffairs, 2011. xi, 303 p. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. "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"-- Economic assistance Developing countries. Poverty Prevention. Duflo, Esther, 1972- 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK HC 59 .7.B323 2011 33251 33251 0 0 lcc 0 0 NFIC PUEA PUEA GEN 2022-03-08 BOOK FOR AFRICA 2000.00 2022-15190 0 HC 59 .7.B323 2011 2022-0461 2022-03-08 00:00:00 C1 2022-03-08 BK