Cloth bags
- ID-nummer
- 2019.022.001
- Titel
- Cloth bags
- Objektkategori
- Kläder & assessorer
- Publik beskrivning
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These bags were made by women in Ghana who were living in extreme poverty. The bags were part of one of Abhijit Banerjee's research projects, which studied ways of improving their economic situation. The participants were provided with support and means of producing textile bags as paid labour alongside their farm work, and their productivity was measured. 170,000 bags were made, and the conclusion was that support given to the extremely poor resulted in increased productivity, not passivity.
Abhijit Banerjee donated the bags to the Nobel Prize Museum in 2019. - Location
- Permanent exhibition
- Pristagare
- Abhijit Banerjee
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