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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【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...
評分一直以来,深感自己有很多思维方式是“穷人”的,并不是说好、或者不好,而是,没搞清这些思维的原因,可能会阻碍自己做出更好的选择。所以,前段时间弄了一本《贫穷的本质》看,有些收获,简记如下,提一句,书里对贫穷的定义是每天收入小于0.99美元的人群,全球有10亿,这是...
評分世界卫生组织有个标准,每天收入低于99美分的就是贫困人群,按最近汇率是人民币6块左右,月收入180元以下的人。吃不饱(就是吃完饭还想吃)应该是他们经常的感受。除了克制一下我们自己不必要的欲望之外,还应该寻找系统解决穷困的方法。世界上已经有很多人在为此努力了,本书...
評分非常好。
评分非常通俗易懂, 帶有很多很多案例和實例的采訪,很好的書。Recomend!
评分比之前看的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A better piece as a life-style reading than most life-style books themselves - think of your daily choices as investments.
评分A very accessible book about development economics, and of economics in general. Also provides useful tips on our own lives, albeit perhaps unintentionally.
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