Better choices to reduce poverty

Understanding Poverty

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Mullainathan, Sendhil ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active choices; Developing countries; Development economics; Economic reasoning; Passive choices; Psychological insight; Psychology

Indexed keywords

EID: 68349095983     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/0195305191.003.0025     Document Type: Chapter

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