Poor Economics
2011 • 303 pages

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From the award-winning founders of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT, a transformative reappraisal of the world of the extreme poor, their lives, desires, and frustrations.


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fantastic breakdowns of multi-faceted kaleidoscopic problems, weak in its ‘thin' and often functionalist takes on culture (how does it account for difference across place?)

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