More Than Good Intentions: Improving the Ways the World's Poor Borrow, Save, Farm, Learn, and Stay Healthy Paperback - 2012
by Karlan, Dean; Appel, Jacob
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- Paperback
In this pioneering book Karlan and Appel show how small changes in banking, insurance, health care, and other development initiatives that take into account human irrationality can drastically improve the well-being of poor people everywhere.
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Details
- Title More Than Good Intentions: Improving the Ways the World's Poor Borrow, Save, Farm, Learn, and Stay Healthy
- Author Karlan, Dean; Appel, Jacob
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Plume
- Date 2012-03-27
- Features Bibliography, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0452297567_new
- ISBN 9780452297562 / 0452297567
- Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.8 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 2.03 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Poverty, Poverty - Prevention
- Dewey Decimal Code 362.57
Summary
A revolutionary approach to poverty that takes human irrationality into account-and unlocks the mystery of making philanthropic spending really work.
American individuals and institutions spent billions of dollars to ease global poverty and accomplished almost nothing. At last we have a realistic way forward. Presenting innovative and successful development interventions around the globe, Dean Karlan and Jacob Appel show how empirical analysis coupled with the latest thinking in behavioral economics can make a profound difference. From Kenya, where teenagers reduced their risk of contracting AIDS by having more unprotected sex with partners their own age, to Mexico, where giving kids a one-dollar deworming pill boosted school attendance better than paying their families to send them, More Than Good Intentions reveals how to invest those billions far more effectively and begin transforming the well-being of the world.
