- Economic assistance, Poverty, Prevention, Economic assistance, developing countries
"Billions of government dollars, and thousands of charitable organizations and NGOs, are dedicated to helping the world's poor. But much of the work they do is based on assumptions that are untested generalizations at best, flat out harmful misperceptions at worst.
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Contemporary, earnest, classical in form and grave.
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- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- Publicaffairs, Penguin Books, Limited, RANDOM HOUSE INDIA
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781610390934
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