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The titles double meaning perfectly captures michaels problem. He holds a bsc in economics from the university of calcutta scottish church college, ma in economics from jadavpur university, and a phd in economics from monash university. He argues antipoverty policies often fail because of inadequate understanding of the decisions poor people make. One way to describe economics is as the study of how incentives can curb behaviour. Survey data from countries to document the economic lives of the poor those living on. Chang, hajoon, 2003 rethinking development economics.
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