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Poor Economics

A radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty

by Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo

2011 320 pages eng ★ 4.0 (8 ratings)

"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 …

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