More Than Good Intentions: Improving the Ways the World’s Poor Borrow, Save, Farm, Learn, and Stay Healthy-Fast Shipping

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A revolutionary approach to poverty that takes humanirrationality into account-and unlocks the mystery of makingphilanthropic spending really work.

American individuals and institutions spent billions of dollars toease global poverty and accomplished almost nothing. At last we have arealistic way innovative and successfuldevelopment interventions around the globe, Dean Karlan and Jacob Appelshow how empirical analysis coupled with the latest thinking inbehavioral economics can make a profound difference. From Kenya, whereteenagers reduced their risk of contracting AIDS by having moreunprotected sex with partners their own age, to Mexico, where givingkids a one-dollar deworming pill boosted school attendance better thanpaying their families to send them, More Than Good Intentionsreveals how to invest those billions far more effectively and begintransforming the well-being of the world.