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Research data producers need to be rewarded and acknowledged for their work. The readers of your research also need to be able to track the sources you used, including the data. This is why data must be cited properly, just like books or papers. Our resident citations expert Catherine Brendow explains how.
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November is Academic Writing Month! Writing theses, articles or books is a key skill for graduate students and researchers, and it is not an easy one to master. To help students master it, the Graduate Institute Library offers a wide choice of print and e-books on this topic. These resources are often updated and presented in a dedicated libguide, as well as a temporary display in the entrance of the Library.
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The new recipients of the Nobel Prize in Economics upend the most common assumptions about how economics works in this gripping and disruptive portrait of how poor people actually live.
“Why do the poor borrow to save? Why do they miss out on free life-saving immunizations, but pay for unnecessary drugs? In Poor Economics, Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo answer these questions based on years of field research from around the world. This book offers a radical rethinking of the economics of poverty and an intimate view of life on 99 cents a day. Poor Economics shows that creating a world without poverty begins with understanding the daily decisions facing the poor.”
Publisher: Noida: Random House India, 2011
Call Number: 337.2 HEIA 84548
Publisher: New York: PublicAffairs, 2011
Call Number: 337.2 HEIA 75424
French translation: Repenser la pauvreté
Editions du Seuil, 2012
Call Number: 337.2 HEIA 84811
Original illustration (cropped): Esther Duflo, Pop!Tech 2009, Camden, ME, by Kris Krüg, CC-By-SA 2.0
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