Poor Economics Author(s):Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, Esther Duflo and he wishes he could

and he wishes he could be just as quick

A Sudanese writer begins to suspect that one of his most idiosyncratic characters from a recent novel resembles – in an uncanny and terrifying way – a real person he has never met

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and Gazans inability to communicate with their fellow refugees and the rest of the world

Like many in the same situation

Poor Economics Author(s):Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, Esther Duflo and he wishes he couldDrawing on 15 years of research from Chile to India, Kenya to Indonesia, authors Banerjee and Duflo have identified new aspects of the behavior of poor people, their needs, and the way that aid or financial investment can affect their lives. Their work challenges 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