Getting Beyond Good Intentions through Measurement
May 3, 2011 No CommentsKarlan and Appel discuss their new book with Gates Foundation’s Nelson
When it comes to global poverty, people are passionate and polarized. At one extreme: We just need to invest more resources. At the other: We’ve thrown billions down a sinkhole over the last fifty years and accomplished almost nothing.
Dean Karlan and Jacob Appel present an entirely new approach that blazes an optimistic and realistic trail between these two extremes. In this pioneering book More than Good Intentions: How a New Economics is Helping to Solve Global Poverty Karlan and Appel combine behavioral economics with worldwide field research that take readers with them into villages across Africa, India, South America, and the Philippines, where economic theory collides with real life. They show how small changes in banking, insurance, health care, and other development initiatives that take into account human irrationality can drastically improve the well-being of poor people everywhere.
Jodi Nelson, Director of Impact Planning and Improvement at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, will provide an introduction and opening remarks.
When: May 16, 2011
Networking Reception: 6:15pm – 7:00pm (drinks and light refreshments)
Book reading and discussion: 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Where: St. Mark’s Cathedral, Bloedel Hall
Price: $10
Register: Global Washington website
For more information or to pre-order the book ahead of its April 14 release, click here.
Registrants for Global Washington’s Evaluation Workshop with Innovations for Poverty Action will receive a complimentary copy and free admission to the book event.
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