More Than Good Intentions: Improving the Ways the World's Poor

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

A leading economist and researcher report from the front lines of a revolution in solving the world's most persistent problem.

When it comes to global poverty, people are passionate and polarized. At one extreme: We just need to invest more resources. At the other: We've thrown billions down a sinkhole over the last fifty years and accomplished almost nothing.

Dean Karlan and Jacob Appel present an entirely new approach that blazes an optimistic and realistic trail between these two extremes.

In this pioneering book Karlan and Appel combine behavioral economics with worldwide field research. They take readers with them into villages across Africa, India, South America, and the Philippines, where economic theory collides with real life. They show how small changes in banking, insurance, health care, and other development initiatives that take into account human irrationality can drastically improve the well-being of poor people everywhere.

We in the developed world have found ways to make our own lives profoundly better. We use new tools to spend smarter, save more, eat better, and lead lives more like the ones we imagine. These tools can do the same for the impoverished. Karlan and Appel's research, and those of some close colleagues, show exactly how.

In America alone, individual donors contribute over two hundred billion to charity annually, three times as much as corporations, foundations, and bequests combined. This book provides a new way to understand what really works to reduce poverty; in so doing, it reveals how to better invest those billions and begin transforming the well-being of the world.
Country USA
Binding Kindle Edition
EISBN 9781101476383
Format Kindle eBook
Label Plume
Manufacturer Plume
NumberOfPages 323
PublicationDate 2011-04-14
Publisher Plume
ReleaseDate 2011-04-14
Studio Plume

Country	USA
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781101476383
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Plume
Manufacturer	Plume
NumberOfPages	323
PublicationDate	2011-04-14
Publisher	Plume
ReleaseDate	2011-04-14
Studio	Plume

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

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