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Understanding Poverty
Banerjee
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Description for Understanding Poverty
Paperback. This volume brings together essays by thirty-four leading economists about the most important things they have learnt from their research that relate to poverty. The essays range from the impact of colonialism and globalization to the future of micro-credit and the quest for new vaccines. Editor(s): Banerjee, Abhijit Vinayak; Benabou, Roland; Mookherjee, Dilip. Num Pages: 496 pages, 16 line illus. BIC Classification: JFFA; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 718.
Understanding poverty and what to do about it, is perhaps the central concern of all of economics. Yet the lay public almost never gets to hear what leading professional economists have to say about it. This volume brings together twenty-eight essays by some of the world leaders in the field, who were invited to tell the lay reader about the most important things they have learnt from their research that relate to poverty. The essays cover a wide array of topics: the first essay is about how poverty gets measured. The next section is about the causes of poverty and ... Read more
Understanding poverty and what to do about it, is perhaps the central concern of all of economics. Yet the lay public almost never gets to hear what leading professional economists have to say about it. This volume brings together twenty-eight essays by some of the world leaders in the field, who were invited to tell the lay reader about the most important things they have learnt from their research that relate to poverty. The essays cover a wide array of topics: the first essay is about how poverty gets measured. The next section is about the causes of poverty and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Weight
752g
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195305203
SKU
V9780195305203
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Ref
99-35
About Banerjee
Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee is Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics and Director, Poverty Action Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has taught since 1993. He holds a PhD from Harvard University, an MA from Jawaharlal University, and a BSc from the University of Calcutta. Roland Bénabou is Professor of Economic and Public Affairs at Princeton University. He ... Read more
Reviews for Understanding Poverty
A serious examination of where we stand and what we need to do.
Nicholas Kristof, The New York Review of Books
Mass poverty is mankind's oldest, yet still most pressing, problem. Understanding Poverty describes the attack that economists are making to understand it on many different fronts. Every reader of the essays in this superb volume will appreciate ... Read more
Nicholas Kristof, The New York Review of Books
Mass poverty is mankind's oldest, yet still most pressing, problem. Understanding Poverty describes the attack that economists are making to understand it on many different fronts. Every reader of the essays in this superb volume will appreciate ... Read more