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.
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.
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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...
評分通过案例中的数据对比分析说明,穷人怎样利用手中有限的资源和为什么有时候援助没成效。 1.贫穷陷阱。当收入低于一定水平时,穷人没钱去获取信息,例如买报纸。那么穷人将很难了解到一些常识,根据常识去做出正确的判断。2.越穷说明资源越有限,那么作出正确的判断就更加重要,...
評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...
評分这本书读的很沉重,很多事当你要拨开重重迷雾,企图看到本质的时候,过程总是异常的残忍。不知为什么联想起了张纯如的自杀,现实太过残酷。作者试图通过对各个方面的剖析来告诉我们贫穷是如何造成的,从穷人自身、教育、生育、环境、政治、体质等方面出发,读来实在无法感觉轻...
評分#翻書黨# 援助有用嗎?應該免費還是收一點錢?在什麼領域效果比較好,醫療、教育、還是保險?迴答這些問題,要靠實驗數據。不僅是新的研究方法,很多結論也衝擊瞭現有的研究結論,從而刷新瞭發展經濟學關於現實政策的討論。另外,一方麵是是信心滿滿RCT,另一方麵是狐疑多多有效性。例如2015年諾貝爾經濟學奬得主Deaton對RCT的反駁就很精彩。不過我自己反正從中學到不少東西。不管學界爭議如何,這書寫得很好,有引人入勝的小故事,然後引齣要解決的問題。然後這對夫妻檔作者提齣自己如何用研究來測這個問題的解決方式,最後是提供建議。學界有人要寫暢銷書的話,這個模式值得學習。
评分其實我覺得經濟學這種東西,大多數時候理論隻是理論。
评分Attend to the details, and learn how people make decisions. That's the most useful lesson I learnt from this book.
评分由宏大敘事堆砌起來的悲觀主義,是智識與職業上的屈服和妥協;由big word包裝起來的深刻性,更是一種不費力氣的懶惰和膚淺。慘淡經營的比較研究,針對具體問題的實證分析,不辭勞苦的田野調查,本書作者所倡導和實踐的這些治學態度與方法,正是我在之後的會計學習中最為需要的。切忌空談義理,這很重要。
评分Time inconsistency
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