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Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo are good at outlining the secrets of economic development. Using many local surveys and experiments, they explore how poor people in poor countries cope with poverty: what they know, what they superficially want or don't want, what they expect of themselves and others, how they make choices. Clearly, they have won many meaningful small victories through individual and public action, bringing huge gains to the world's poor benefits, and those gains are likely to continue to snowball. This book fascinated me and filled me with confidence.