Poor Economics

A critical essay on “Poor Economics – A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty”, which will be translated to Portuguese by me.
Questions to be answered:
(1) What is the problem stated by the book?
(2) What are the goals that this text is trying to achieve?
(3) A brief justification for this book – try to identify a possible synthesis of theoretical streams.
Within this critical essay:
(a) Establish which is the central argument of the authors (key question)
(b) Show theoretical/practical relevance of this matter for the economical debate on poverty (main goal of the book)
(c) Establish if this book contributes somehow on facing poverty in a different way.