on these principles, supervised by the Poverty Action Lab at MIT, is being carried out in dozens of countries. Their work … transforms certain presumptions: that microfinance is a cure-all, that schooling equals learning, that poverty at the level of 99 …

"Understanding poverty and what to do about it, is perhaps the central concern of all of economics. Yet the lay public … they have learnt from their research that relate to poverty. The essays cover a wide array of topics: the first essay is … about how poverty gets measured. The next section is about the causes of poverty and its persistence, and the ideas range …