Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
By Nora Lustig. 2012
323 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Sociology and Political Science
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/ffe287d073115d276102b4d9284cce699ffd8f3c
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In Sociology and Political Science
- Abhijit Banerjee
- Maria Abascal
- Delia Baldassarri
- Debraj Ray
- B. Douglas Bernheim
- Sevin Yeltekin
- Benjamin A. Olken
- Sebastian Martinez
Citations in the corpus
- Shelter from the Storm: Upgrading Housing Infrastructure in Latin American Slums (2014, background): “Better houses may also provide incentives to invest in further housing improvements, since such investments may be associated with other complementarities (see, among others, Banerjee and Duflo, 2011 ).”
- Microcredit Under the Microscope: What Have We Learned in the Past Two Decades, and What Do We Need to Know? (2013, methodology): “In a survey in India that asks parents to articulate what kind of occupation they hope their children to fill, approximately 80% say a government job.”
- Success conditions for international development capacity building projects (2017, background): “achieving the overarching goal of economic growth or poverty reduction through not-for-profit, humanitarian, and/or socioeconomic objectives – fail to deliver much needed impact for beneficiaries (Agheneza, 2009; Banerjee and Duflo, 2011; Hobbes, 2014; Ika, 2012, 2015; Rondinelli, 1976).”
- Field experiments across the social sciences (2017, background): “The general intervention philosophy, if one can be identified, is to encourage (and enable) individuals to take actions that improve their well-being (Banerjee & Duflo 2011, Karlan & Appel 2011).”
- Informal microfinance institutions and development-led tourism entrepreneurship (2016, background): “While the internal operations of formal MFIs are well researched (Banerjee & Duflo, 2011; Woolcock, 1999), there is a relative neglect of IMFIs.”
- 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.”
- Poverty and Self-Control (2013, background): “Banerjee and Duflo (2011) cite other studies that also show high rates of return to small investments.”