Abstract

SARA-MARRUGO, Jorge Armando  and  GONZALEZ-ESCOBEDO, Yamile Gisella. Approach to Banerjee and Duflo's ideas on poverty. Entramado [online]. 2024, vol.20, n.1, pp.1-.  Epub May 07, 2024. ISSN 1900-3803.  https://doi.org/10.18041/1900-3803/entramado.1.10255.

From a macroeconomic viewpoint, development theories have ranged from those that privilege international cooperation to those that maintain that the alternative for overcoming poverty is sustainable economic growth. In the middle has been development economics, whose studies have moved away from fieldwork as a modality for empirical research. The purpose of this article is to reflect on the central arguments of the experimental approach proposed by Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, applied from the perspective of economics, to understand and combat poverty. The main ideas, criticisms, and debates suggested by both the academic field and public management are presented. The epistemological scope of this theory will be relevant if it stimulates an interdisciplinary approach to poverty where the poor are considered as subjects and not as agents of an analytical model.

Keywords : Poverty; experimental method; human development; autonomy policy; development economics; social interventions; public management; epistemology of economics.

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