01893nam a2200277   4500999001900000001000200019003000200021005001700023008000200040020001800042040001400060082002500074100003200099245007800131250001200209260003900221300001100260504005100271520100400322650005401326650003201380700003301412906002401445942001201469952013401481  c156520d1565200020250603131435.00  a9788184002805  cATENdDLC00a339.46091724 BAN2221 aAbhijit V. Banerjee.92740110aPoor Economics:bA Radical Rethinking of the way to Fight Global Poverty;  a1st ed.  aNew York :bPublicAffairs,cc2011.  a303 p.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.  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.927402 0aPovertyxPrevention.9274031 aDuflo, Esther,d1972-927404  a7bcbcd1eecipf20  2ddccBK  00102ddc4070aATENbATENd2019-12-08eJeevan Karkig0.00l0o339.46091724 BANpAATEN18184r2019-12-08 00:00:00w2019-12-08yBK