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One Illness Away
Why People Become Poor and How They Escape Poverty
Anirudh Krishna
- Accessible, comprehensive, and hope-inspiring. Helps the reader gain a new perspective, and learn ways in which they can individually contribute to reducing poverty
- Large-scale study of 35,000 households across five countries, and four continents
- Highly readable, includes personal interviews and life stories of many individuals' experiences
- Looks at the reasons why people fall into poverty, and how the creation of future poverty can be more effectively prevented by presenting a clear agenda for action
- Makes an important contribution to the on-going public debates concerning health care and aid to developing countries