This important book illuminates how the poor live, and offers all of us an opportunity to think of a world beyond poverty. Banerjee and Esther Duflo teach economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and direct the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, which is dedicated to lessening poverty through research-based efforts. Their work defies 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. Drawing on this and their 15 years of research from Chile to India, Kenya to Indonesia, they have identified wholly new aspects of the behavior of poor people, their needs, and the way that aid or financial investment can affect their lives. Work based on these principles, supervised by the Poverty Action Lab, is being carried out in dozens of countries. Miércoles, 13 de mayo de 2011 EXPLORE NUESTRA INVESTIGACIÓN. Reflexiones sobre el libro de Duncan Green, jefe de investigación de Oxfam GB. But much of their work is based on assumptions that are untested generalizations at best, harmful misperceptions at worst.Ībhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo have pioneered the use of randomized control trials in development economics. Poor Economics - un rico libro nuevo de Abhijit Banerjee y Esther Duflo. Two highly regarded economists relay 15 years of research into a smart, engaging investigation of the real nature of global poverty and why current approaches to addressing miss the mark.īillions of government dollars, and thousands of charitable organizations and NGOs, are dedicated to helping the world’s poor.
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