About the Book: Poor Economics: Rethinking Poverty and the Ways to End It
A pathbreaking book on poverty from two of the hottest young economists today
Imagine you have a few billion dollars and want to spend it on the poor. How do
you go about it? Billions of government dollars, and thousands of charitable
organizations and NGOs, are dedicated to helping the worlds poor. But much of
their work is based on assumptions about the poor and the world that are
untested generalizations at best, harmful misperceptions at worst.
Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo have pioneered the use of randomized
control trials (RCTs) in development