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Poor economics : a radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty /
"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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
PublicAffairs,
©2011.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 303 pages) |
| Premios: | Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year. Economist Best Book of the Year. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781610390408 1610390407 9781610391603 1610391608 9781280588099 1280588098 9786613095565 6613095567 1586487981 9781586487980 |