Poor economics: rethinking poverty and the ways to end it (Record no. 395929)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9788184002805
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 339.46
Item number B2P6
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Personal name Banerjee, Abhijit V
9 (RLIN) 371766
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Title Poor economics: rethinking poverty and the ways to end it
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Penguin Random House
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2013
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Gurgaon
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xv, 442 p.
Other physical details With index
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Imagine you have a few million dollars. You want to spend it on the poor. How do you go about it? Billions of government dollars, and thousands of charitable organizations and NGOs, are dedicated to helping the world’s poor. But much of their work is based on assumptions about the poor and the world that are untested generalizations at best, harmful misperceptions at worst. Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo have pioneered the use of randomized control trials in development economics through their award-winning Poverty Action Lab. They argue that by using randomized control trials, and more generally, by paying careful attention to the evidence, it is possible to make accurate—and often startling assessments—on what really impacts the poor and what doesn’t. Why would a man in Morocco who doesn’t have enough to eat buy a television? Why is it so hard for children in poor areas to learn even when they attend school? Why do the poorest people in Maharashtra spend 5 percent of their total budget on sugar? Does having lots of children actually make you poorer? Drawing on their research at the Poverty Action Lab and their fifteen years of fieldwork in India and across the world, the two economists ask many such questions and show why the poor, despite having the same desires and abilities as anyone else, end up with entirely different lives. Revelatory and impassioned, Poor Economics is a pathbreaking book that will help you to understand the real causes of poverty and how to end it. <br/><br/>https://penguin.co.in/book/non-fiction/poor-economics/
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Economics
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Poverty - Research
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Economic assistance - Developing countries
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Economic assistance
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Developing countries
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Duflo, Esther
Relator term Co author
9 (RLIN) 371771
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