More Than Good Intentions: How a New Economics Is Helping to Solve Global Poverty
Karlan, Dean; Appel, Jacob
ISBN 10: 052595189X ISBN 13: 9780525951896
Editorial: Dutton, 2011
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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.
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.
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Dean Karlan is a professor of economics at Yale University. He is also president of Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) and a research fellow of the M.I.T. Jameel Poverty Action Lab. He founded and is president of stickK.com. His research has been funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Ford Foundation, Alfred B. Sloan Foundation, Google.org, National Science Foundation, World Bank, and Interamerican Development Bank, among others. In 2007, Karlan received a Presidential Early Career Award for scientists and engineers.
Jacob Appel works with IPA and spent two years as a field researcher in Ghana, West Africa.
Dean Karlan is a professor of economics at Yale University, president and founder of Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), and a research fellow of the MIT Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab. He is also founder and president of StickK.com, a website using principles from behavioral economics to help people reach personal goals. His research has been funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Ford Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Google.org, National Science Foundation, World Bank, and Interamerican Development Bank, among others. In 2007, Karlan received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut, with his wife and children.
Jacob Appel studied mathematics at Columbia University and then spent two years as a field researcher with Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) in Ghana, West Africa, studying microcredit. Since 2008, he has traveled across Latin America, Africa, and Asia, working in the field with IPA and other development research organizations. He is currently studying how street market microentrepreneurs make career decisions and manage their businesses in Kolkata, India, where he lives.
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Año de publicación: 2011
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