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Good economics for hard times

Vishy KurugantiNovember 30, 20235 mins

Back in 2011, I took my longest ever career sabbatical (15+ months) which would eventually lead me to “start up” for the second time. Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Poverty…

Unconditional transfers approaching primetime

Vishy KurugantiDecember 05, 20192 mins

Since I first read about unconditional transfers (in Banerjee and Duflo’s Poverty Economics book), I’ve been fascinated about this seemingly this-cant-possibly-work approach to foreign aid. Later I…

Understanding moral hazards, moral imperatives and informal insurance

Vishy KurugantiMay 31, 20123 mins

I recently re-read Chapter 6 of Poor Economics (Barefoot Hedge-Fund Managers) because I was looking for a savings intervention RCT. I haven’t found that RCT yet but a related story — about how the…

Top Takeaways from Banerjee and Duflo's Poor Economics

Vishy KurugantiNovember 18, 20114 mins

Pic: courtesy Pooreconomics.com If you’ve been following this blog for sometime, you know that I consider Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo’s Poor Economics as a bible of sorts — to understand poverty…

Voting in developing countries dominated by ethnicity? Banerjee and Duflo answer with.. (yes) a RCT

Vishy KurugantiOctober 28, 20112 mins

In the diverse melting pot that is the great Indian democracy, we all know the strong role ethnicity plays in deciding elections. In their book Poor Economics, Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo write…

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