A review by pearl35
More Than Good Intentions: How a New Economics Is Helping to Solve Global Poverty by Dean Karlan

3.0

Case studies of the application of behavioral economics to poverty alleviation programs, most of which boil down to a menu of small scale banking and getting people to use mosquito nets, put chlorine in water at dispensing stations and give their kids anti-diarrhea salts correctly. The trick, however, is marketing it appropriately to local conditions (will "rebate" or "matching funds" go over better?), controlling the program agents on the ground for corruption and neglect and avoiding large scale solutions that are ill suited to various circumstances.