TY - BOOK AU - Banerjee,Abhijit V. AU - Duflo,Esther TI - Poor economics: barefoot hedge-fund managers, DIY doctors and the surprising truth about life on less than $1 a day SN - 9780718193669 (pbk.) : AV - HC59.7 .B323 2012 U1 - 339.46091724 23 PY - 2012/// CY - London PB - Penguin Books KW - Economic assistance KW - Developing countries KW - Poverty KW - Prevention KW - Economics KW - ukslc N1 - Originally published: New York: PublicAffairs, 2011; Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - Why would a man in Morocco who doesn't have enough to eat buy a television? Does having lots of children actually make you poorer? This book overturns the myths about what it is like to live on very little, revealing the unexpected decisions that millions of people make every day ER -