Tag: Abhijit Banerjee
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An Anti-Poverty Program That Really Works
Pacific Standard: An Anti-Poverty Program That Really Works "The study, run by an international team of economists, included 10,495 households in Ethiopia, Ghana, Honduras, India, Pakistan, and Peru. Almost half of the families in the study lived on less than $1.25 a day. The specifics of Graduation varied by country, but the basic premise was the same.…
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Abhijit Banerjee: ‘The poor, probably rightly, see that their chances of getting somewhere different are minimal’
Guardian: Abhijit Banerjee: 'The poor, probably rightly, see that their chances of getting somewhere different are minimal' The author of Poor Economics on why aid that assumes the poor will do the right thing is misguided – and why political corruption does not necessarily mean economic stagnation. … Until Poor Economics appeared last year, the…