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Firmly grounded in microeconomic theory and rigorous hypothesis testing, the underlying. In poor economics, banerjee and duflo both are economists at massachusetts institute of. Banerjee and esther duflo, two awardwinning mit professors, answer these questions based on years of field research from around the world. A radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty, by abhijit v. Poor economics is by two mit economists, abhijit vinayak banerjee and esther duflo. Chapter 5 of poor economics, pak sudarnos big family focuses on population control in the developing world and the family dynamics relating to the population size. A radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty, the authors use data from randomized controlled trials rcts in eighteen countries to show that many of our assumptions about the poor are incorrect.