Understanding Poverty - Wretched of the Earth
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Em nome de Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)Enviada em: quinta-feira, 7 de junho de 2007 10:00
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Assunto: [EQ] Understanding Poverty - Wretched of the Earth
Wretched of the Earth
By Nicholas D. Kristof - The New York Review of Books - Volume 54, Number 9 · May 31, 2007
Poor People - by William T. Vollmann - Ecco, 450 pp.
Understanding Poverty edited by Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee - Roland 443 pp.
Available online at: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/20230
“…….No interview haunts me more than a conversation with a Cambodian peasant, Nhem Yen, in 1996. She was forty years old, though she looked much older, and was living with her family in a clearing in the Cambodian jungle. The area was notorious for malaria, but the family members were ambitious and industrious and figured that it was worth the risk to make more money by cutting wood for sale.
Nhem Yen's eldest daughter, who was twenty-four and pregnant with her second child, promptly caught malaria. There was no money to get medical treatment (effective drugs would have cost less than $10), and so she died a day after giving birth. That left Nhem Yen looking after five children of her own and two grandchildren.
The family had one mosquito net that could accommodate about three people. Such nets are quite effective against malaria, but they cost $5—and Nhem Yen could not afford to buy any more. So every night, she agonized over which of the children to put under the net and which to leave out…..”
“……Perhaps books like Vollmann's may at least remind us of the poor, removing them for a moment from invisibility, and help replace our current resignation with policies that would make a considerable difference. ……”
The Economic Lives of the Poor
Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, Professors of Economics and Directors of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.October 2006PDF [42p,] at: http://econ-www.mit.edu/faculty/download_pdf.php?id=1346
“…This paper uses survey data from 13 countries to document the economic lives of the poor (those living on less than $2 dollar per day per capita at purchasing power parity ) or the extremely poor (those living on less than $1 dollar per day). We describe their patterns of consumption and income generation as well as their access to markets and publicly provided infrastructure. The paper concludes with a discussion of some apparent anomalous choices….”
Em nome de Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)Enviada em: quinta-feira, 7 de junho de 2007 10:00
Para: EQUIDAD@LISTSERV.PAHO.ORG
Assunto: [EQ] Understanding Poverty - Wretched of the Earth
Wretched of the Earth
By Nicholas D. Kristof - The New York Review of Books - Volume 54, Number 9 · May 31, 2007
Poor People - by William T. Vollmann - Ecco, 450 pp.
Understanding Poverty edited by Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee - Roland 443 pp.
Available online at: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/20230
“…….No interview haunts me more than a conversation with a Cambodian peasant, Nhem Yen, in 1996. She was forty years old, though she looked much older, and was living with her family in a clearing in the Cambodian jungle. The area was notorious for malaria, but the family members were ambitious and industrious and figured that it was worth the risk to make more money by cutting wood for sale.
Nhem Yen's eldest daughter, who was twenty-four and pregnant with her second child, promptly caught malaria. There was no money to get medical treatment (effective drugs would have cost less than $10), and so she died a day after giving birth. That left Nhem Yen looking after five children of her own and two grandchildren.
The family had one mosquito net that could accommodate about three people. Such nets are quite effective against malaria, but they cost $5—and Nhem Yen could not afford to buy any more. So every night, she agonized over which of the children to put under the net and which to leave out…..”
“……Perhaps books like Vollmann's may at least remind us of the poor, removing them for a moment from invisibility, and help replace our current resignation with policies that would make a considerable difference. ……”
The Economic Lives of the Poor
Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, Professors of Economics and Directors of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.October 2006PDF [42p,] at: http://econ-www.mit.edu/faculty/download_pdf.php?id=1346
“…This paper uses survey data from 13 countries to document the economic lives of the poor (those living on less than $2 dollar per day per capita at purchasing power parity ) or the extremely poor (those living on less than $1 dollar per day). We describe their patterns of consumption and income generation as well as their access to markets and publicly provided infrastructure. The paper concludes with a discussion of some apparent anomalous choices….”
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