Poor Economics with Abhijit Banerjee

August 12, 2016

Living in poverty, Tsunza Village, Kenya. Fuel and water subsidies benefit rich more than poor says Abhijit Banerjee. (photo: Ignacio Hennigs).

In This Episode

Abhijit Banerjee, has worked in dozens of countries trying to better understand the economics of poverty. He argues anti-poverty policies often fail because of inadequate understanding of the decisions poor people make. Banerjee Participated in a seminar on Sustainable Economic Development during the IMF World-Bank Spring meetings. In this podcast, we discuss why so little is known about a billion poor people in the world.

Abhijit Banerjee, Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and author of Poor Economics, A radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
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