More Than Good Intentions: Improving the Ways the World's Poor Borrow, Save, Farm, Learn, and Stay Healthy - Softcover

Karlan, Dean; Appel, Jacob

 
9780452297562: More Than Good Intentions: Improving the Ways the World's Poor Borrow, Save, Farm, Learn, and Stay Healthy
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0452297567 ISBN 13: 9780452297562
Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

A revolutionary approach to poverty that takes human irrationality into account-and unlocks the mystery of making philanthropic spending really work.

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 coupled with the latest thinking in behavioral economics can make a profound difference. From Kenya, where teenagers reduced their risk of contracting AIDS by having more unprotected sex with partners their own age, to Mexico, where giving kids a one-dollar deworming pill boosted school attendance better than paying their families to send them, More Than Good Intentions reveals how to invest those billions far more effectively and begin transforming the well-being of the world.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dean Karlan is Professor of Economics at Yale University and president of IPA. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

Jacob Appel is a field researcher for IPA. He lives in Montclair, New Jersey.

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Verlag
Penguin Publishing Group
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0452297567
ISBN 13 
9780452297562
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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