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Does economic growth always improve quality of life?
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Poor Economics
Abhijit V. Banerjee & Esther Duflo · 2011 · PublicAffairs
Field experiments on how poor households actually decide about food, schooling, health and credit — an argument for small, testable claims over grand theories.
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“We have to abandon the habit of reducing the poor to cartoon characters and take the time to really understand their lives, in all their complexity and richness.”
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How much does geography determine economic development?
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