TY - BOOK AU - Banerjee, Abhijit V. TI - Poor Economics: Rethinking poverty and the ways to end it SN - 9788184002805 U1 - 339.46091724 BAN PY - 2011/// CY - Gurgaon PB - Penguin Books KW - Developing Countries KW - Poverty-Prevention KW - Economic Assistance N2 - Imagine you have a few million dollars. You want to spend it on the poor. How do you go about it? Billions of government dollars, and thousands of charitable organizations and NGOs, are dedicated to helping the world’s poor. But much of their work is based on assumptions about the poor and the world that are untested generalizations at best, harmful misperceptions at worst ER -