Pomagać czy nie pomagać? Nowa perspektywa ekonomii rozwoju

• Authors: Anna Lewicka-Strzałecka

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To Help or Not to Help? A New Perspective on Development Economics

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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Many governments, charitable organizations and NGOs are dedicated to helping the world’s poor but much of their effort is wasted. In the opinion of Banerjee and Duflo this effort is based on assumptions that are untested generalizations at best, and harmful misperceptions at worst. Because of this, they propose a new way to fight global poverty. The paper presents this way. It is based on randomized trials to reveal the multi-faceted and complex economic lives of the poor. Limitations of the new perspective are shown.

Keywords

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development economics; poverty; help; randomized trials

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk / Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego
• Journal: Prakseologia
• Year: 2012
• Issue: 153
• Pages: 227-243

Contributors

author

Anna Lewicka-Strzałecka

• Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii PAN, ul. Nowy Świat 72, 00-330 Warszawa

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