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041	0		_aeng
050	0	0	_aHC59.7 _b.B32 2011
090			_aHC59.7 _b.B32 2011
100	1		_aBanerjee, Abhijit V. _eauthor _959811
245	1	0	_aPoor economics : _ba radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty / _cAbhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo.
264		1	_aNew York : _bPublicAffairs, _c2011.
264		4	_c©2011
300			_axi, 303 pages ; _c25 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [277]-293) and index.
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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aPoverty _xPrevention _947947
650		0	_aEconomic assistance _zDeveloping countries _926205
700	1		_aDuflo, Esther, _d1972- _eauthor _979525
942			_cBK _2lcc