Posted Sep 27, 2022, 6:24 PM
About the When an economist, Nobel Prize in her discipline, and a comic book illustrator meet, it can be surprising. The collaboration between Esther Duflo and Cheyenne Olivier gives a series of ten titles for children, around the theme of poverty. The first volumes of the “Neso and Najy” series recount the difficulties, hopes and successes of two poor young villagers coming to work in the big city. Proposed for children, this story is not precisely located. However, it corresponds to what happened in India around the Covid period, when urban construction sites closed and precarious workers returned to their villages. The adventures, sad or smiling, are an opportunity to address the themes of hunger, hard work, migration. With, at the end of the album, for parents, some summary analyzes and a graph on the “poverty traps”.
Interest Although this collection is intended for the youngest, it nevertheless delivers precise information and analyses, based on the most rigorous work in economics. To read therefore from 7 to 77 years old (and even more).
Neso and Najy, not even afraid of the big city
comics
Esther Duflo, Cheyenne Olivier, Seuil Jeunesse, 2022, 46 pages, 9.90 euros.
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