贫穷的本质 Poor Economics - (EPUB全文下载)

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Table of Contents
 
Title Page
Dedication
Foreword
Chapter 1 - Think Again, Again
TRAPPED IN POVERTY?
 
PART I - Private Lives
Chapter 2 - A Billion Hungry People?
ARE THERE REALLY A BILLION HUNGRY PEOPLE?
ARE THE POOR REALLY EATING WELL, AND EATING ENOUGH?
WHY DO THE POOR EAT SO LITTLE?
SO IS THERE REALLY A NUTRITION-BASED POVERTY TRAP?
Chapter 3 - Low-Hanging Fruit for Better (Global) Health?
THE HEALTH TRAP
WHY AREN’T THESE TECHNOLOGIES USED MORE?
UNDERSTANDING HEALTH-SEEKING BEHAVIOR
THE VIEW FROM OUR COUCH
Chapter 4 - Top of the Class
SUPPLY-DEMAND WARS
THE CURSE OF EXPECTATIONS
WHY SCHOOLS FAIL
REENGINEERING EDUCATION
Chapter 5 - Pak Sudarno’s Big Family
WHAT IS WRONG WITH LARGE FAMILIES?
DO THE POOR CONTROL THEIR FERTILITY DECISIONS?
CHILDREN AS FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS
THE FAMILY
 
PART II - Institutions
Chapter 6 - Barefoot Hedge-Fund Managers
THE HAZARDS OF BEING POOR
THE HEDGE
WHERE ARE THE INSURANCE COMPANIES FOR THE POOR?
Chapter 7 - The Men from Kabul and the Eunuchs of India: The (Not So) Simple ...
LENDING TO THE POOR
MICRO INSIGHTS FOR A MACRO PROGRAM
DOES MICROCREDIT WORK?
THE LIMITS OF MICROCREDIT
HOW CAN LARGER FIRMS BE FINANCED?
Chapter 8 - Saving Brick by Brick
WHY THE POOR DON’T SAVE MORE
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SAVINGS
POVERTY AND THE LOGIC OF SELF-CONTROL
Chapter 9 - Reluctant Entrepreneurs
CAPITALISTS WITHOUT CAPITAL
THE BUSINESSES OF THE POOR
GOOD JOBS
Chapter 10 - Policies, Politics
POLITICAL ECONOMY
CHANGES AT THE MARGIN
DECENTRALIZATION AND DEMOCRACY IN PRACTICE
AGAINST POLITICAL ECONOMY
 
In Place of a Sweeping Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index
Copyright Page
For our mothers, Nirmala Banerjee and Violaine Duflo
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 to live in. She had a vision of a vast checkerboard of a city, with 3 feet by 3 feet marked out on the ground, each with a human pawn, as it were, huddled into it. She wondered what she could do about it.
When she finally visited Calcutta, she was twenty-four and a graduate student at MIT. Looking out of the taxi on her way to the city, she felt vaguely disappointed; everywhere she looked, there was empty space—trees, patches of grass, empty sidewalks. Where was all the misery so vividly depicted in the comic book? Where had all the people gone?
At six, Abhijit knew where the poor lived. They lived in little ramshackle houses behind his home in Calcutta. Th ............

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