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Poor Economics:
A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
AuthorsAbhijit V. Banerjee
Esther Duflo
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SubjectEconomics
GenreNon-fiction
PublisherPublicAffairs
Publication date
April 26, 2011
Media typeHardback
Pages320 pp
ISBN978-1-58648-798-0

Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (2011) is a non-fiction book by Abhijit V. Banerjee[1] and Esther Duflo,[2] both professors of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences laureates. The book reports on the effectiveness of solutions to global poverty using an evidence-based randomized control trial approach. It won the 2011 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award.[3]

  1. ^ "Short Bio". economics.mit.edu. Retrieved July 24, 2020.
  2. ^ "Esther Duflo". economics.mit.edu. Retrieved July 24, 2020.
  3. ^ Andrew Hill. "‘Poor Economics’ takes business book prize", Financial Times, 3 Nov 2011.

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