Poor economics : a radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty
by Banerjee, Abhijit V., 1961- (Author), Duflo, Esther, 1972- (Author)
Summary
This book offers a view of the lives of the world's poorest people, helping to explain why the poor tend to borrow in order to save, why they miss out on free life-saving immunizations but pay for drugs that they do not need, and the cointerintuitive challenges faced by those living on less than 99... Full description
- Think again, again
- Part I: Private Lives:
- A billion hungry people?
- Low-hanging fruit for better (global) health?
- Top of the class
- Pak Sudarno's big family
- Part II: Institutions:
- Barefoot hedge-fund managers
- The men from Kabul and the eunuchs of India : the (not so) simple economics of lending to the poor
- Saving brick by brick
- Reluctant entrepreneurs
- Policies, politics
- In place of a sweeping conclusion.