Why would a man in Morocco who doesn’t have enough to eat buy a television? Why do the poorest in India spend 7 per cent of their food budget on sugar?
This eye-opening book overturns the myths about what it is like to live on very little, revealing the unexpected decisions that millions of people make every day.
‘Refreshingly original ... an entirely new perspective’
GUARDIAN
‘It has been years since | read a book that taught me so much’
STEVEN OD. LEVITT, CO-AUTHOR OF FREAKONOMICS
‘Marvellously insightful’
AMARTYA SEN
‘An engrossing new book’
ECONOMIST
‘They deserve to be congratulated, and to be read’
WALL STREET JOURNAL
ISBN: 9780718193669 SKU: 2030317000185
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