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020			_a9788184002805
082			_a339.46 _bBAN
100			_aBanerjee, Abhijit V.
245			_aPoor economics: _brethinking poverty and the ways to end it
260			_bRandom House India _aNoida _c2013
300			_axv, 442
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"
650			_a Economic assistance
650			_aPoverty
650			_aResearch
650			_aEconomic assistance
650			_aDeveloping countries
700			_aDuflo, Esther
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999			_c564736 _d564736