This book is about the wealthy economics that comes out from understanding the economic lives of the poor. It is a book about the kinds of theories that help us make sense of both what the poor are able to achieve and where, and for what reason, they need a push. The initial questions of this book are like:
1. Why would a man in Morocco who doesn’t have enough to eat buy a television?
2. Why is it so hard for children in poor areas to learn even when they attend school?
3. Why do the poorest people in the India spends 7 percent of their food budget on sugar?
4. Does having lots of children actually make you poorer?
The best lines from this books are:
a) If the rules make such a difference, then it becomes very important who gets to make them.
b) Economics is too important to be left to economists.
c) Talking about the problems of the world without talking about some accessible solutions is the way to paralysis rather than progress.
d) poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one’s full potential as a human being.”
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