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100			_aBanerjee, Abhijit V _98981
245			_aPoor economics: rethinking poverty and the ways to end it
260			_bPenguin India -- _aHaryana -- _c2013
300			_axv, 442p.
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"--Provided by publisher
650			_aEconomics _9307
650			_aMacroeconomics _98982
650			_aDeveloping countries _98983
650			_aIncome _98984
650			_aWealth _98985
650			_aPoverty Research _98986
700			_aDuflo, Esther _98987
942			_cBK