Poor economics: rethinking poverty and the ways to end it (Record no. 2430)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9788184002805 |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 339.4 BAN/P |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Banerjee, Abhijit V |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Poor economics: rethinking poverty and the ways to end it |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher | Penguin India -- |
| Place of publication | Haryana -- |
| Year of publication | 2013 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xv, 442p. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | "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"--Provided by publisher |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Economics |
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| Topical Term | Macroeconomics |
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| Topical Term | Developing countries |
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| Topical Term | Income |
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| Topical Term | Wealth |
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| Topical Term | Poverty Research |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Duflo, Esther |
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| Koha item type | Book |
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| Non-fiction | CENTRAL LIBRARY | CENTRAL LIBRARY | Literature (Nila Campus) | 2024-08-26 | 339.4 BAN/P | 08199 | Literature |