Poor Economics Author(s):Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, Esther Duflo Forget the fad diets and

Forget the fad diets and take back control of your well-being and waistline today

and he wishes he could be just as quick

Like many in the same situation

coinciding with the kidnapping of his mujahid son in Syria

Will the forces lining up against him allow it

Poor Economics Author(s):Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, Esther Duflo Forget the fad diets andDrawing on 15 years of research from Chile to India, Kenya to Indonesia, authors Banerjee and Duflo have identified new aspects of the behavior of poor people, their needs, and the way that aid or financial investment can affect their lives. Their work challenges certain presumptions: that microfinance is a cure all, that schooling equals learning, that poverty at the level of 99 cents a day is just a more extreme version of the experience any of us