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Why do the poor borrow to save? Why do they miss out on free
life-saving immunizations, but pay for unnecessary drugs? In "Poor
Economics," Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, two practical
visionaries working toward ending world poverty, answer these
questions from the ground. In a book the "Wall Street Journal"
called "marvelous, rewarding," the authors tell how the stress of
living on less than 99 cents per day encourages the poor to make
questionable decisions that feed--not fight--poverty. The result is
a radical rethinking of the economics of poverty that offers a
ringside view of the lives of the world''s poorest, and shows that
creating a world without poverty begins with understanding the
daily decisions facing the poor.
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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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