具体描述
Winner of the 2011 Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Best Business Book of the Year Award
Billions of government dollars, and thousands of charitable organizations and NGOs, are dedicated to helping the world's poor. But much of their work is based on assumptions that are untested generalizations at best, harmful misperceptions at worst.
Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo have pioneered the use of randomized control trials in development economics. Work based on these principles, supervised by the Poverty Action Lab, is being carried out in dozens of countries. Drawing on this and their 15 years of research from Chile to India, Kenya to Indonesia, they have identified wholly new aspects of the behavior of poor people, their needs, and the way that aid or financial investment can affect their lives. Their work defies certain presumptions: that microfinance is a cure-all, that schooling equals learning, that poverty at the level of 99 cents a day is just a more extreme version of the experience any of us have when our income falls uncomfortably low.
This important book illuminates how the poor live, and offers all of us an opportunity to think of a world beyond poverty.
Learn more at www.pooreconomics.com
作者简介
Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee is the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at MIT. He is the recipient of many honors and awards, including most recently the inaugural Infosys Prize in 2009, and has been an honorary advisor to many organizations 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 is a recipient of the MacArthur “genius” award (2009) and the John Bates Clark medal awarded annually to the best American economist under forty (2012). In 2003, Banerjee and Duflo cofounded the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), which they continue to direct.
目录信息
1 Think Again, Again 1
Part I Private Lives
2 A Billion Hungry People? 19
3 Low-Hanging Fruit for Better (Global) Health? 41
4 Top of the Class 71
5 PakSudarno's Big Family 103
Part II Institutions
6 Barefoot Hedge-Fund Managers 133
7 The Men from Kabul and the Eunuchs of India: The (Not So) Simple Economics of Lending to the Poor 157
8 Saving Brick by Brick 183
9 Reluctant Entrepreneurs 205
10 Policies, Politics 235
In Place of a Sweeping Conclusion 267
Acknowledgments 275
Notes 277
Index 295
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读后感
现代城市最大的阴影，莫过于触目惊心的贫穷现象。 《金融时报》曾经做过一期关于贫民窟的专题，封面照片选择了里约热内卢（巴西的前首都），贫民窟占据了整个山坡，犹如一幅巨大的破布。 消除贫穷，这不仅是一个道德问题，更是关乎城市发展的神话是否可持续的问题。自从城市...
评分一、穷人缺乏有效的避险工具 1. 穷人会生一堆孩子，但生孩子不是观念落后，而是一种理性思考，因为穷人所在的国家往往没有社会保障体系，想规避养老和医疗风险，只能依靠自己的子女，但是子女身上不确定性太多，或者早夭，或者关系不好，或者没能力养老，穷人往往采取多生几个...
评分一、穷人缺乏有效的避险工具 1. 穷人会生一堆孩子，但生孩子不是观念落后，而是一种理性思考，因为穷人所在的国家往往没有社会保障体系，想规避养老和医疗风险，只能依靠自己的子女，但是子女身上不确定性太多，或者早夭，或者关系不好，或者没能力养老，穷人往往采取多生几个...
评分世界卫生组织有个标准，每天收入低于99美分的就是贫困人群，按最近汇率是人民币6块左右，月收入180元以下的人。吃不饱（就是吃完饭还想吃）应该是他们经常的感受。除了克制一下我们自己不必要的欲望之外，还应该寻找系统解决穷困的方法。世界上已经有很多人在为此努力了，本书...
评分现代城市最大的阴影，莫过于触目惊心的贫穷现象。 《金融时报》曾经做过一期关于贫民窟的专题，封面照片选择了里约热内卢（巴西的前首都），贫民窟占据了整个山坡，犹如一幅巨大的破布。 消除贫穷，这不仅是一个道德问题，更是关乎城市发展的神话是否可持续的问题。自从城市...
用户评价
A better piece as a life-style reading than most life-style books themselves - think of your daily choices as investments.
评分A very accessible book about development economics, and of economics in general. Also provides useful tips on our own lives, albeit perhaps unintentionally.
评分非常清晰，非常有趣~主要研究方法是RCT。
评分俩经济学家很努力地跑到农村去做实验跟人聊天，理解穷人在风险，储蓄，政治，家庭，教育，医疗，保险种种mindset和practice的书。经济学家过去那么多项目啊政策啊怎么就成了笑话呢？原来穷人过的真不容易啊！
评分A very accessible book about development economics, and of economics in general. Also provides useful tips on our own lives, albeit perhaps unintentionally.
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