Poor Economics Author(s):Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, Esther Duflo shining stone

shining stone

A Sudanese writer begins to suspect that one of his most idiosyncratic characters from a recent novel resembles – in an uncanny and terrifying way – a real person he has never met

coinciding with the kidnapping of his mujahid son in Syria

It is a harsh and difficult period

and Gazans inability to communicate with their fellow refugees and the rest of the world

Poor Economics Author(s):Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, Esther Duflo shining stoneDrawing on 15 years of research from Chile to India, Kenya to Indonesia, authors Banerjee and Duflo have identified new aspects of the behavior of poor people, their needs, and the way that aid or financial investment can affect their lives. Their work challenges 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