More than good intentions : improving the ways the world's poor borrow, save, farm, learn, and stay healthy /
American individuals and institutions spent billions of dollars to ease global poverty and accomplished almost nothing. At last we have a realistic way forward. Presenting innovative and successful development interventions around the globe, Dean Karlan and Jacob Appel show how empirical analysis co...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The monks and the fish
- To work against poverty : how we do what we do
- To buy : doubling the number of families with a safety net
- To borrow : why the taxi driver didn't take a loan
- To pursue happiness : having better things to do
- To cooperate in groups : what about the weakness of the crowd?
- To save : the unfun option
- To farm : something from nothing
- To learn : the importance of showing up
- To stay healthy : from broken legs to parasites
- To mate : the naked truth
- To give : the takeaway.