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"A leading economist and researcher report from the front lines of a revolution in solving the world's most persistent problem. When it comes to global poverty, people are passionate and polarized. At one extreme: We just need to invest more resources. At the other: We've thrown billions down a sinkhole over the last fifty years and accomplished almost nothing. Dean Karlan and Jacob Appel present an entirely new approach that blazes an optimistic and realistic trail between these two extremes. In this pioneering book Karlan and Appel combine behavioral economics with worldwide field research. They take readers with them into villages across Africa, India, South America, and the Philippines, where economic theory collides with real life. They show how small changes in banking, insurance, health care, and other development initiatives that take into account human irrationality can drastically improve the well-being of poor people everywhere. We in the developed world have found ways to make our own lives profoundly better. We use new tools to spend smarter, save more, eat better, and lead lives more like the ones we imagine. These tools can do the same for the impoverished. Karlan and Appel's research, and those of some close colleagues, show exactly how. In America alone, individual donors contribute over two hundred billion to charity annually, three times as much as corporations, foundations, and bequests combined. This book provides a new way to understand what really works to reduce poverty; in so doing, it reveals how to better invest those billions and begin transforming the well-being of the world"

Development aid. Development cooperation --- Community organization --- Third World: economic development problems --- Poverty --- Prevention --- Developing countries: economic development problems --- Poverty - Prevention

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Traces the historical experience in developed and developing countries of putting into practice rights to social security, including social insurance, and an adequate standard of living. Outlines three distinct forms of models for welfare states: the Nordic or Social Democratic model (Scandinavia), the Corporatist model (Germany), and the Liberal or Residual model (UK and USA).

Developing countries -- Social policy. --- Income maintenance programs -- Developing countries. --- Poverty -- Developing countries -- Prevention. --- Poverty -- Prevention -- International cooperation.

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"Billions of government dollars, and thousands of charitable organizations and NGOs, are dedicated to helping the world's poor. But much of the work they do is based on assumptions that are untested generalizations at best, flat out harmful misperceptions at worst. Banerjee and Duflo have pioneered the use of randomized control trials in development economics. Work based 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 cents a day is just a more extreme version of the experience any of us have when our income falls uncomfortably low. Throughout, the authors emphasize that life for the poor is simply not like life for everyone else: it is a much more perilous adventure, denied many of the cushions and advantages that are routinely provided to the more affluent"--

#SBIB:327.4H10 --- #SBIB:327.4H60 --- Ontwikkelingsproblematiek: algemeen --- Derde wereld: ontwikkeling, sociale verandering: algemeen --- Economic order --- Economic assistance --- Poverty --- Prevention --- Economic assistance - Developing countries --- Poverty - Prevention

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UN Contributions to Development Thinking and Practice is at once a history of the ideas and realities of international development, from the classical economists to the recent emphasis on human rights, and a history of the UN's role in shaping and implementing development paradigms over the last half century. The authors, all prominent in the field of development studies, argue that the UN's founding document, the UN Charter, is infused with the human values and human concerns that are at the center of

Economic development --- Poverty --- International cooperation --- History --- Prevention --- United Nations --- Economic development - International cooperation - History. --- Economic Theory --- Business & Economics --- Economic development - International cooperation - History --- Poverty - Prevention --- Human rights --- History. --- Economic aspects. --- Prevention.

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Safety nets are noncontributory transfer programs targeted to the poor or vulnerable. They play important roles in social policy. Safety nets redistribute income, thereby immediately reducing poverty and inequality; they enable households to invest in the human capital of their children and in the livelihoods of their earners; they help households manage risk, both ex ante and ex post; and they allow governments to implement macroeconomic or sectoral reforms that support efficiency and growth. To be effective, safety nets must not only be well intended, but also well designed and well implemented

Economic assistance, Domestic. --- Poverty -- Prevention. --- Social planning. --- Social policy. --- Economic assistance, Domestic --- Poverty --- Social policy --- Social planning --- Poor --- Business & Economics --- Economic History --- Prevention --- Services for --- Services for. --- Prevention. --- National planning --- State planning --- Social development planning --- Destitution --- Anti-poverty programs --- Government economic assistance --- Economic policy --- Family policy --- Social history --- Planning --- Wealth --- Basic needs --- Begging --- Subsistence economy --- National service --- Grants-in-aid