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008			110103s2012 nyu b 001 0 eng
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050	0	0	_aHC59.7 _b.B323 2012
082	0	0	_a339.4/6091724 _222
100	1		_aBanerjee, Abhijit V. _eauthor _9300529
245	1	0	_aPoor economics : _ba radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty / _cAbhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo.
250			_aFirst edition
264		1	_aNew York : _bPublicAffairs, _cc2012.
300			_axi, 303 p. ; _c25 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_a1. Think again, again -- Part 1. Private lives -- 2. A billion hungry people -- 3. Low hanging fruit for better (global health? -- 4. Top of the Class -- 5. Pak Sudarno’s Big Family -- Part II. Institutions -- 6. Barefoot Hedge-Fund Managers -- 7. The Men from Kabul and the Eunuchs of India: The (Not So) Simple economics of lending to the poor -- 8. Saving Brick by Brick -- 9. Reluctant Entrepreneurs -- 10. Policies, Politics.
520			_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.
650		0	_aEconomic assistance _zDeveloping countries.
650		0	_aPoverty _xPrevention.
700			_aDuflo, Esther, _d1972- _9303235
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