About the book
Overview
Authors
Excerpt
What others are saying
News and Events
What we're reading
Buy the book
Chapters
1 Think Again, Again
2 A Billion Hungry People
3 Low-Hanging Fruit
4 Top of the Class
5 Pak Sudarno's Big Family
6 Barefoot Hedge-Fund Managers
7 The Men from Kabul and the Eunuchs of India
8 Saving Brick by Brick
9 Reluctant Entrepreneurs
10 Policies, Politics
Teaching the Book
Data
18-country data set
Time-use data set
Map of world poverty
Research
Map of studies
List of studies
What you can do
Where do the poor live?
People living under $1 a day around the world
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Deaton, A. and O. Dupriez. "Purchasing power parity exchange rates for the global poor." American Economic Journal. Forthcoming.
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