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Even after vigilant efforts by economists, a solution to poverty cannot be found. About the authors john eyers john eyers has worked in the australian treasury, adb, commonwealth secretariat, office of national assessments, png treasury, and the european. A radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty download pdf, poor economics. Interest rates and credit the men from kabul and the eunuchs of india the poor pay very high interest rates, in part because determining the creditworthiness of the poor is timeconsuming and expensive, creditors have very limited options for recovering capital after default, and while interest rates are extremely high, net. Poor economics is a book about the very rich economics that emerges from understanding the economic lives of the poor.
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