One is poor economics by abhijit banerjee and esther duflo. The author takes a step towards positivity and how the. Does having lots of children actually make you poorer. A radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty paperback march 27, 2012. The authors seriously engage two different perspective throughout the book one that argues that aid to the global poor often makes matters worse, and the other that argues that the poor cannot rise without.
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