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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《贫穷的本质》,本来是我推荐给朋友的一本书,自己还没看,结果她看了以后回头和我说真的很不错,反而促使我很快地看完了。应该说对于政府扶贫办主任绝对是很有帮助的一本书,因为作者通过连续15年对印度1美元以下的贫民的观察和研究,深入了解他们的动机和局限性,最后...
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,...
評分这本书研究了穷人面对饥饿、疾病、教育、人口等一系列问题时的行为和选择,并且分析了小额贷款、存款、创业、选举等方面对穷人进行政策倾斜所产生的效果和局限。 书中有一个结论很有意思:人们都有自制力差、时间不耐(宁有一鸟在手,不愿众鸟在林)、懒惰等毛病,并且穷人只...
評分自打贫穷一出现,我们就产生了某种以约定俗成的方式来贬低穷人的冲动。他们被描述的有时懒惰、有时上进、有时高尚、有时鬼祟、有时愤怒、有时顺从、有时无助、有时自强。而实质上,这些对他们的看法无助于帮助那些处于贫穷状态下的普通男女实现希望、消除疑惑、弥补不足、满足...
評分【本想花一个小时翻一下,因为书名关系人的切身利益,花了更多时间摘录和发挥一下。整本书沿袭了老美畅销书的风格,很水,但也有一些道理值得学习。书中的贫穷多指的印度,非洲等赤贫的人们,但道理并不仅限于此】 从国家层面讲,贫穷是最大的人才浪费。无数人的潜能被贫困浪...
比之前看的Dead Aid更全麵,對援助悲觀主義者和樂觀主義者的兩類主張都有迴應。作者的風格特彆平實,態度很務實,反復強調之前的學者沒有數據說個毛綫,極端案例不能作為大眾的代錶。全書主要是幫助理解窮人做決策的邏輯,錶示窮人的決策雖然可能不正確但都是理性的決策。要全麵理解窮人的生活狀態,把援助要送到刀口上纔有用。然後我最近越來越覺得UN好假大空啊怎麼辦。
评分非常清晰,非常有趣~主要研究方法是RCT。
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评分A better piece as a life-style reading than most life-style books themselves - think of your daily choices as investments.
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