More Than Good Intentions: Improving the Ways the World's Poor Borrow, Save, Farm, Learn, and Stay Healthy

by Dean Karlan and Jacob Appel

Book Overview

A revolutionary approach to poverty that takes human irrationality into account-and unlocks the mystery of making philanthropic spending really work. American individuals and institutions spent billions of dollars to ease global poverty and accomplished almost nothing. At last we have a realistic way forward. Presenting innovative and successful development interventions around the globe, Dean Karlan and Jacob Appel show how empirical analysis coupled...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0452297567
• ISBN13: 9780452297562
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher