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Two essays by Abhijit Banerjee and a former of other development thinkers. The main thrust of Abhijit's writing is the need for more randomized evaluations in development to understand the inner workings of poverty alleviation.
This book starts with an essay by Banerjee about how to "fix" aid by making randomized trials to check the efficacy of aid programs. It's followed up by essays written by various economists and aid program representatives writing about how they think aid can be "fixed." To finish it up, Banerjee writes an essay about education and figuring out how to make it work.I really hate this book because it's a whole bunch of economists talking about how to fix the problems that economists made in the pas...
Thoughtful, timely, and unsatisfying. It had more questions than answers, and the questions themselves were innovative but not nearly enough. The book might have benefitted from asking What is poverty? What keeps us trying so hard to stop it? How do we do it while still respecting those we're barging in to help? How do we get countries (or communities in our own country) to empower themselves and keep their own programs going? These questions were not only asked but answered in When Helping Hurt...