Understanding Poverty
"A serious examination of where we stand and what we need to do."--Nicholas Kristof,The New York Review of Books"Mass poverty is mankind's oldest, yet still most pressing, problem.Understanding Povertydescribes the attack that economists are making to understand it on many different fronts. Every reader of the essays in this superb volume will appreciate the currrent excitement of development economics and the enormous progress it has made in the last two decades."--George Akerlof, Nobel Laureate in Economics, 2001