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The authors caught my attention at the beginning of the chapter when they presented the statistic that the interest payment in chennai, india is 4. Its from the doyennes of the new focus on measurement in general and randomized control trials in particular, abhijit banerjee and esther duflo from the abdul latif jameel poverty action lab j. Poor economics by claire kelly whole planet foundation. The 1990 world development report from the world bank defined the extremely poor people of. A radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty.
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