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1The Measure of World Poverty
2The Record of Growth (PDF)Pritchett, Lant. "Divergence, Big Time." The Journal of Economic Perspectives 11, no. 3 (Summer 1997): 10-11.
3The Historical Context of Growth: Colonialism, Globalization and All ThatAmazon logo Banerjee, Abhijit V., Roland Benabou, and Dilip Mookherjee, eds. Understanding Poverty. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 23, 25, 26, 27, 30, 31, 45, 46, 49, 50, 52, and 56. ISBN: 9780195305203.
4Can Foreign Aid Help?
5The Economic Lives of the PoorBanerjee, Abhijit, and Esther Duflo. Tables 1-12 in "The Economic Lives of the Poor." The Journal of Economic Perspectives 21, no. 1 (Winter 2007): 141-167.
6Improving Education (PDF)
7Health and Fertility (PDF)
8Delivering Healthcare
9The Poor and Financial Services 1 (PDF)
10The Poor and Financial Services 2 (PDF)
11Negotiating with Corruption (PDF)

Bertrand, Marianne, Simeon Djankov, Rema Hanna, and Sendhil Mullainathan. Tables 1-9 in "Does Corruption Produce Unsafe Drivers?" National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 12274, June 2006, pp. 34-41.


 








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