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Poor Economics : A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
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Poor Economics : A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty Paperback - 2012

by Duflo, Esther, Banerjee, Abhijit V

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From the award-winning founders of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT, a transformative reappraisal of the world of the extreme poor, their lives, desires, and frustrations.

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  • Title Poor Economics : A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
  • Author Duflo, Esther, Banerjee, Abhijit V
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher PublicAffairs, NYC
  • Date 2012-03-27
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 4942034-6
  • ISBN 9781610390934 / 1610390938
  • Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.5 x 1 in (20.83 x 13.97 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Developing World
  • Library of Congress subjects Economic assistance - Developing countries, Poverty - Prevention
  • Dewey Decimal Code 339.4

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About the author

Abhijit Banerjee, winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics, is the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a co-founder and co-director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). In 2011, he was named one of Foreign Policy magazine's top 100 global thinkers. Banerjee served on the U.N. Secretary-General's High-level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Esther Duflo, winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics, is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a co-founder and co-director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). Duflo is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science, and has received numerous academic honors and prizes including the Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences (2015), the Infosys Prize (2014), the Dan David Prize (2013), a John Bates Clark Medal (2010), and a MacArthur "Genius Grant" Fellowship (2009). Duflo is a member of the President's Global Development Council and a Founding Editor of the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, and is currently the editor of the American Economic Review. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.