Why Fighting Poverty is Hard

Published By: BREAD on eSS | Published Date: September, 16 , 2008

One reason anti-poverty policy has not worked better than it has is because, one went into it naively, without enough of an understanding of what makes it hard. This essay is about what the author have learnt about this question from his own research, most of which is based in India. [Policy Paper No 17] URL: [http://ipl.econ.duke.edu/bread/papers/policy/p017.pdf]

Author(s): Abhijit Banerjee | Posted on: Mar 16, 2011 | Views(1144) | Download (215)


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