Poor economics a radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty
This book offers a view of the lives of the world's poorest people, helping to explain why the poor tend to borrow in order to save, why they miss out on free life-saving immunizations but pay for drugs that they do not need, and the cointerintuitive challenges faced by those living on less than 99...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
PublicAffairs,
[2011]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Think again, again
- Part I: Private Lives: A billion hungry people?
- Low-hanging fruit for better (global) health?
- Top of the class
- Pak Sudarno's big family
- Part II: Institutions: Barefoot hedge-fund managers
- The men from Kabul and the eunuchs of India : the (not so) simple economics of lending to the poor
- Saving brick by brick
- Reluctant entrepreneurs
- Policies, politics
- In place of a sweeping conclusion.
