Poor Economics : a radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty

By - Banerjee, Abhijit V; , Duflo, Esther

Floor - Floor 1

Published - PublicAffairs, New York, 2011

ISBN 10 - 1610390938

ISBN 13 - 9781610390934

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General

Shelf No - 17

Call Number - 339.4609 BAN

Physical Description - xi, 303 pages : illustrations, charts ; 25 cm

Notes - includes index

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Why do the poor borrow to save? Why do they miss out on free life-saving immunizations, but pay for unnecessary drugs? In Poor Economics, Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, two practical visionaries working toward ending world poverty, answer these questions from the ground. In a book the Wall Street Journal called “marvelous, rewarding,” the authors tell how the stress of living on less than 99 cents per day encourages the poor to make questionable decisions that feed—not fight—poverty. The result is a radical rethinking of the economics of poverty that offers a ringside view of the lives of the world's poorest, and shows that creating a world without poverty begins with understanding the daily decisions facing the poor.

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