Making Aid Work

by Abhijit V. Banerjee

Book Overview

With more than a billion people now living on less than a dollar a day, and with eight million dying each year because they are simply too poor to live, most would agree that the problem of global poverty is our greatest moral challenge. The large and pressing practical question is how best to address that challenge. Although millions of dollars flow to poor countries, the results are often disappointing. In Making Aid Work , Abhijit Banerjee--an...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262026155
• ISBN13: 9780262026154
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.5" x 7.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher