Sorry I cannot recommend any other book on this topic - nothing else I have read about tackling poverty comes close to Poor Economics. By the way, Esther Duflo

Sorry I cannot recommend any other book on this topic - nothing else I have read about tackling poverty comes close to Poor Economics. By the way, Esther Duflo (co-author of the book) has a TED talk worth watching: http://www.ted.com/talks/esther_duflo_social_experiments_to_fight_poverty.html http://www.ted.com/talks/esther_duflo_social_experiments_to_...