This is a sammari - an abbreviated version of the book "The Economics of Poverty. A radical rethinking of ways to fight poverty in the world by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo Only the most valuable thoughts, ideas, cases, examples. We live in the most satisfying and secure time in human history, but the scale of poverty is still impressive: a billion people on Earth live on 99 cents a day, hundreds of thousands of people suffer from hunger. Pictures of impoverished African or Indian villages are depressing: it seems that their inhabitants have no chance of getting out of the deepest economic pit. But is it? Are the poor deprived of the opportunity to improve their lives and if not, what prevents them from taking up the case? When they can help themselves, and when the government should intervene? Nobel laureates Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo come to the conclusion: poverty is not a vice, the situation in which developing countries find themselves is rectifiable and offers solid evidence.