Thinking Small: A Review of Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty

By Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duno. 2016

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Generating Employment in Poor and Fragile States: Evidence from Labor Market and Entrepreneurship Programs (2015, background): “These were small, rural villages of about 100 households, and 15 received $150 each 58For a review see Banerjee and Duflo (2011).”
Effects of Payment for Environmental Services (PES) on Deforestation and Poverty in Low and Middle Income Countries: A Systematic Review (2014, background): “Researchers should consider the recent work in development economics for guidance on executing field experiments that might provide more credible evidence (Banerjee and Duflo, 2011; Casey et al., 2012; Karlan and Appel, 2012).”
The Missing “Missing Middle” (2014, background): “For example, Banerjee and Duflo (2005, 2011) argue that the fixed costs of adopting modern technologies are prohibitively high in poor countries.”
Neoliberalism as concept (2015, background): “Perry Anderson describes it as ‘the most successful ideology in world history’ (Anderson, 2000, p. 17).”
BANKING THE POOR VIA SAVINGS ACCOUNTS: EVIDENCE FROM A FIELD EXPERIMENT ∗ (2015, background): “Moreover, anecdotal evidence from Banerjee and Duflo (2011) emphasizes the importance 39 There is a difference in the average withdrawal size, which is Rs. 2751 for households whosemain source of income comes from an entrepreneurial activity and Rs. 1578 for the rest of the sample.”
Making Progress on Foreign Aid (2015, background): “The need for better evaluations of the numerous past interventions for assisting the poor is also called for by Banerjee and Duflo (2011) in their book, Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty.”
Can Employment Reduce Lawlessness and Rebellion? A Field Experiment with High-Risk Men in a Fragile State (2016, background): “5 See, for instance, Banerjee and Duflo (2011); Blattman and Ralston (2015). 6 e.g. Humphreys and Weinstein 2007; Levely 2013. In Burundi, Gilligan, Mvukiyehe, and Samii (2012) compare men in an unserved DDR region to men in two served regions, and see that men in the program region have greater inc”
On the Psychology of Scarcity: When Reminders of Resource Scarcity Promote Selfish (and Generous) Behavior (2015, background): “…a variety of academic disciplines, including marketing (e.g., Sharma and Alter 2012), psychology (e.g., Griskevicius et al. 2013), economics (e.g., Banerjee and Duflo 2011), sociology (e.g., Booth 1984), philosophy (e.g., Lerner and Lerner 1981), political science (e.g., Grossman and Mendoza…”
Do Poverty Traps Exist? Assessing the Evidence (2014, result): “Banerjee et al. (2011) find similar results over an 18-month horizon, with program households receiving an approximate US$0.06 per day increase in per capita earnings.”
Dynamics of Multidimensional Poverty and Uni-dimensional Income Poverty: An Evidence of Stability Analysis from China (2019, background): “Moreover, Banerjee and Duflo (2011) found that some income poor people would rather buy television or a cellphone than buy food for enough nutrition or take cheap immunizations for their children.”
A Review and Taxonomy of Choice Architecture Techniques (2016, background): “Choice architecture research has gained attention in recent years for its promise to apply insights from behavioral research to areas beyond marketing, such as policy making (Shafir, 2012) or development aid (Banerjee & Duflo, 2011).”