Poor Economics: The Surprising Truth about Life on Less Than $1 a Day by Esther Duflo, Abhijit V. Banerjee

Poor Economics: The Surprising Truth about Life on Less Than $1 a Day

Esther Duflo, Abhijit V. Banerjee

303 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction economics challenging informative slow-paced

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Why would a man in Morocco who doesn't have enough to eat buy a television? Why do the poorest people in India spend 7 percent of their food budget on sugar? Does having lots of children actually make you poorer? This eye-opening book overtur...

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