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Abhijit Banerjee: ‘The poor, probably rightly, see that their chances of getting somewhere different are minimal’

Apr 27, 2012

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mwkruse

in Economic Development, Economics, International Affairs, Microenterprise, Politics, Poverty, Public Policy, Sociology

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…