我们在这里郑重地向经济学家和广大经济工作者推荐朱玲、蒋中一合著的《以工代赈与缓解贫困》一书。这倒主要不是因为作者选择了一个新的研究领域(今天大多数中国青年经济学家已经注意或做到了这一点),首次从缓解贫困的角度对以工代赈政策的制订和实施过程进行系统的专题研究;而是因为这部著作展示了社会经济抽样调查和数据处理的国际规范方法和中国独到的操作经验,以及由此而得出的一系列 Here, we solemnly recommend to economists and the general economic workers Zhu Ling and Jiang Zhongyi’s book Work-for-Food and Poverty Alleviation. This is not because the author chose a new area of ​​research (most Chinese young economists today have noticed or done) and for the first time systematically formulated and implemented the policy on food for work relief from a poverty alleviation perspective But also because this book shows the international normative methods of social and economic sample surveys and data processing and the unique operation experience of China and the series of