Poor Economics¶
Banerjee, A. V., & Duflo, E. (2011). Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty.
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Primes¶
- Threshold Bounded Vicious Cycle
- In development economics it is the poverty trap: households below a capital threshold cannot save because every shock consumes any surplus, while above the threshold savings compound, so small grants are eaten by current crises and only big-push transfers cross the threshold into self-sustaining accumulation.
This sourceAnalyzes poverty traps as S-shaped accumulation dynamics in which households below a capital threshold cannot save, while above it savings compound.
- In development economics it is the poverty trap: households below a capital threshold cannot save because every shock consumes any surplus, while above the threshold savings compound, so small grants are eaten by current crises and only big-push transfers cross the threshold into self-sustaining accumulation.
Domain-specific¶
- Progress Illusion
- This gap is precisely what drove the field-wide shift toward results-based management and rigorous impact evaluation (the randomized-evaluation movement associated with organizations like J-PAL), which insists on measuring the outcome construct directly rather than accepting the activity tally as evidence the goal moved
This sourceFor the randomized-evaluation half only: Banerjee and Duflo's book is the popular statement of the J-PAL programme they founded, arguing that anti-poverty policy be judged by outcomes measured through randomized evaluation rather than by what was delivered; it does not treat results-based management, nor document what caused the field-wide shift.
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- This gap is precisely what drove the field-wide shift toward results-based management and rigorous impact evaluation (the randomized-evaluation movement associated with organizations like J-PAL), which insists on measuring the outcome construct directly rather than accepting the activity tally as evidence the goal moved
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