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Foreword esther was six when she read in a comic book on mother teresa that the city then called calcutta was so crowded that each person had only 10 square feet. Mit professors banerjee and duflo poor economics, winners of the 2019 nobel prize in economics, apply pragmatic, real worldtested economic ideas to such issues as global trade, immigration, prejudice, income inequality, and the feasibility of a universal basic income in this lucid and frequently surprising account. Looking at some of the most paradoxical aspects of life below the poverty line why the poor need to borrow in order to save, why incentives that seem effective to us may not be for them, and why. 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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