Poor Economics

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 27, 2011

Esther Duflo, Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at MIT, and Abhijit Banerjee, International Professor of Economics at MIT, authors of Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty, talk about the complicated nature of poverty and how understanding poverty contributes to better policy.

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