Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee is currently the Ford Foundation
International Professor of Economics at MIT. He is the recipient of
many awards, including the inaugural Infosys Prize in 2009, and has
been an honorary advisor to many organizations including the World
Bank and the Government of India.
Esther Duflo is Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation
and Development Economics in the Department of Economics at MIT.
She has received numerous honors and prizes including a John Bates
Clark Medal for the best American economist under 40 in 2010, a
MacArthur 'genius' Fellowship in 2009. Together with Abhijit
Banerjee and Sendhil Mullainathan of Harvard University, she
founded the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab in 2003.
Poor Economics is making waves . . . refreshingly original,
wonderfully insightful . . . an entirely new perspective
*Guardian*
A marvellously insightful book by two outstanding researchers on
the real nature of poverty
*Amartya Sen*
It has been years since I read a book that taught me so much
*Steven D. Levitt*
A page-turner about the micro-economics of aid policy might not
sound too probable, but that's what [Banerjee and Duflo] have
written, and it is a truly remarkable book . . . unmistakably
contemporary, written beautifully
*Guardian*
A compelling and important read
*Forbes*
An engrossing new book
*Economist*
Marvellous . . . they deserve to be congratulated, and to be
read
*Wall Street Journal*
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