Jun Yan’s Reviews > Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty > Status Update

The book talked about how poor families concentrate their money to educate their smartest kids and not every kids get education. This is indeed what happened to my mom’s family. She is the only one who attended high school and had much better life ; and her not-educated sisters led much worse lives.

The book says the poor chooses not to eat things that are more nutritious but more tasty. This is pretty obvious to me as people might not even know what’s nutritious. My family back in China, especially the older generation, doesn’t know the concept of calories, carbs, iron, etc . Even when people know those concepts, they don’t eat nutritious food, otherwise there wouldn’t have so many diabetes in US.