Poor Economics by Abhijit Banerjee
Drawing on the authors' years of research from Chile to India, Kenya to Indonesia, this title identifies fresh aspects of the behavior of poor people, their needs, and the way that aid or financial investment can affect their lives.
"A marvellously insightful book by two outstanding researchers on the real nature of poverty" Amartya Sen, Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics"
Abhijit V Banerjee was educated in Kolkata, Delhi and Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at MIT. He is the recipient of many honours and awards, and has been an honourary advisor to many organisations including the World Bank and the Government of India. Esther Duflo is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at MIT. She studied at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, and at MIT, and is the recipient of several important awards including a MacArthur "Genius" award (2009) and the John Bates Clark medal awarded annually to the best American economist under 40 (2010). In 2003, Banerjee & Duflo co-founded the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), which they continue to direct.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781586487980 |
| ISBN 10 | 1586487981 |
| Title | Poor Economics |
| Author | Abhijit Banerjee |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | PublicAffairs,U.S. |
| Year published | 2011-04-26 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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