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Cargando... Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (edición 2011)por Abhijit Banerjee (Autor), Esther Duflo (Autor)
Información de la obraRepensar la pobreza : un giro radical en la lucha contra la desigualdad global por Abhijit Banerjee
   KayStJ's to-read list (1,347) My List (230) Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.   ) rivkat | Jul 20, 2023 |  This book fills a void and discusses the aspects of poverty and "poor economics." Each section covers a different aspect of poverty and contains enough anecdotal information and research findings. Each chapter also discusses the main theses of different authors. I don't know why they referenced C. K. Prahalad's book on fortune at the bottom of the pyramid. That book is superficial. There is a good concluding chapter. The book is readable. Over the last few years, I saw many people troll the authors. This behaviour has been tragic because the trolls have not read this excellent book. There is no simple solution to poverty. This is the tragic lesson of the book. But, I hope we come away with a greater appreciation of what needs to be done and don't treat the poor as useless. If we do this, then the authors have been successful. (  ) RajivC | May 2, 2023 |  ) brutalstirfry | May 6, 2022 | ) zennkat | Feb 9, 2022 | I should have read the cover properly because as it turns out I was incorrect. It is based on the economic activities and decisions faced by the very poorest people in the world with the focus being on India. The main focus is on the bare economics and the way aid can both be helpful and unhelpful at the same time depending on how it is implemented. There is also a look at the psychology behind some of the seemingly bizarre decisions that these people make. One example that stood out for me was the fact that when researchers paid off the debts of groups of traders they would inevitably get back into debt before too long. It wasn't that these people had to get into debt from a financial people of view but that they were so used to being in debt they didn't see it as an issue to get into debt again. Government agencies were looked at from the point of view of corruption. They point out that the big problem with corruption is that it is everywhere and a normal part of life for many. There is no point in investing millions on improving a road when the truck drivers can pay a small bribe to be allowed to drive an over weight truck on them and ruin them. This is quite an interesting book but I found it a little dry and repetitive in places. ( ) Brian. | Jul 24, 2021 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Esther Duflo y Abhijit Banerjee, ganadores del Premio Nobel de Econom a 2019.El libro que cambiar nuestra manera de pensar sobre la pobreza y lo que debemos hacer para aliviarla. C mo se vive con menos de un d lar al d a? Por qu los microcr ditos resultan tiles pero no son el milagro que algunos esperaban? Por qu los pobres dejan pasar las campa as de vacunaci n gratuita pero pagan por medicinas que a menudo no necesitan? Por qu sus hijos pueden ir a la escuela a o tras a o y no aprender nada? Por qu no siempre invierten en obtener m s calor as, sino calor as que saben mejor?Nuestra tendencia a reducir a los pobres a un conjunto de clich s nos ha impedido hasta ahora comprender los problemas a los que se enfrentan a diario. Dado que poseen tan poco, hemos asumido que no hay nada de inter s en su vida econ mica. Las pol ticas gubernamentales destinadas a ayudarles muchas veces fracasan porque se fundamentan en suposiciones erradas con respecto a sus circunstancias y su conducta.Repensar la pobreza supone un revolucionario giro en el modo de abordar la lucha global contra la pobreza. Sus autores, dos consagrados economistas del MIT, han acudido directamente a los protagonistas para comprender c mo funciona de verdad la econom a de los pobres, cu les son sus motivaciones y aspiraciones. Los resultados de sus observaciones contradicen muchas de nuestras creencias m s arraigadas.El innovador planteamiento de este libro empieza por cambiar las preguntas. A partir de ah , ofrece las respuestas y, con ellas, un gran potencial transformador y una gu a esencial para pol ticos, activistas y cualquier persona preocupada por construir un mundo sin desigualdad.ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics upend the most common assumptions about how economics works in this gripping and disruptive portrait of how poor people actually live. 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 award-winning MIT professors, answer these questions based on years of field research from around the world. Called "marvelous, rewarding" by the Wall Street Journal, the book offers a radical rethinking of the economics of poverty and an intimate view of life on 99 cents a day. Poor Economics shows that creating a world without poverty begins with understanding the daily decisions facing the poor. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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