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Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of The Way To Fight Global Poverty

Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo
Read 2017

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  • Utopia For RealistsBregman draws directly on Esther Duflo’s RCT work (the Hyderabad microcredit study) to argue cash transfers beat microcredit; this book is the evidentiary backbone of his anti-poverty chapter.

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