Poor economics :A radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty : 贫穷的本质
Chapter 1 : thinking again again
To turn away from the feeling that the fight against poverty is too overwhelming and to start to think of the challenges as a set of concrete problems that once properly identified and understood, can be solved one at a time.Poverty Trap foreign aid supporter and rejector linked to behavior economics output
Key takeaways:
Talking about the problems of the world without talking about some accessible solutions is the way to paralysis rather than progress. This is why it is really helpful to think in terms of concrete problems which could have specific answers. The core is to understand how the poor make their decisions. It could be that the poor are so absolutely by the problems of the present that they do not have the mental space to worry about the future or there could be something entirely different going on. Poverty trap ?
It is possible to make the world a better place probably not tomorrow but in some future, that is within our reach but we could not get there within LAZY THINKING.