This title is winner of the FT Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2011. Why would a man in Morocco who doesn't have enough to eat buy a television? Why do the poorest people in India spend 7 percent of their food budget on sugar? Does having lots of children actually make you poorer? This eye-opening book overturns the myths about what it is like to live on very little, revealing the unexpected decisions that millions of people make every day. Looking at some of the most paradoxical aspects of life below the poverty line - why the poor need to borrow in order to save, why incentives that seem effective to us may not be for them, and why, despite being more risk-taking than high financiers, they start businesses but rarely grow them - Banerjee and Duflo offer a new understanding of the surprising way the world really works.

作者：（印度）阿比吉特•班纳吉(Abhijit V.Banerjee) （法国）埃斯特•迪弗洛(Esther Duflo) 译者：景芳

阿比吉特•班纳吉(Abhijit V.Banerjee),美国麻省理工学院福特基金会国际经济学教授。曾就读于印度加尔各答大学、贾瓦哈拉尔•尼赫鲁大学及美国哈佛大学；曾任发展经济学分析研究局局长、美国艺术科学研究院及计量经济学会研究员、古根海姆基金会及艾尔弗雷德•斯隆基金会研究员。获2009年度印孚瑟斯（Infosys）奖等多个奖项,曾任世界银行和印度政府等多家组织机构荣誉顾问。

埃斯特•迪弗洛(Esther Duflo),美国麻省理工学院经济系阿卜杜勒•拉蒂夫•贾米尔扶贫与发展经济学教授；曾就读于法国巴黎高等师范学院和美国麻省理工学院；获大量荣誉：2010年度约翰•贝茨•克拉克奖,2009年度麦克阿瑟“天才”奖学金,《经济学人》杂志“八大杰出经济学家”之一,《外交政策》杂志“百位最具影响力思想家”之一,《财富》杂志2010年“40位40岁以下”最具影响力的企业领导人之一。2003年,班纳吉和迪弗洛联合创建阿卜杜勒•拉蒂夫•贾米尔贫困行动实验室（J-PAL）,并一直共同为该实验室提供指导。J-PAL实验室的任务是确保扶贫政策的制定基于科学依据,从而减少贫困人口。J-PAL实验室的研究成果已赢得国际认可,获西班牙毕尔巴鄂比斯开银行年度“知识前沿”奖。