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邦訳：2012年4月・みすず書房
New in paperback. Hardcover was published 2011. Awarded the 2011 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year. Drawing on research from Chile to India, Kenya to Indonesia, the book has identified wholly new aspects of the behavior of poor people, their needs, and the way that aid or financial investment can affect their lives. It 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.
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Why do the poor borrow to save? Why do they miss out on free life-saving immunizations, but pay for unnecessary drugs? In Poor Economics , Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, two practical visionaries working toward ending world poverty, answer these questions from the ground. In a book the Wall Street Journal called marvellous, rewarding," the authors tell how the stress of living on less than 99 cents per day encourages the poor to make questionable decisions that feed,not fight,poverty. The result is a radical rethinking of the economics of poverty that offers a ringside view of the lives of the world's poorest, and shows that creating a world without poverty begins with understanding the daily decisions facing the poor.
