Abhijit Banerjee
Abhijit
V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo direct the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and are authors of Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight
Global Poverty, from which this excerpt is adapted.
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