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The Challenge of World Poverty 14.73 MIT

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This is a course for those who are interested in the challenge posed by massive and persistent world poverty, and are hopeful that economists might have something useful to say about this challenge. The questions we will take up include: Is extreme poverty a thing of the past? What is economic life like when living under a dollar per day? Why do some countries grow fast and others fall further behind? Does growth help the poor? Are famines unavoidable? How can we end child labor—or should we? How do we make schools work for poor citizens? How do we deal with the disease burden? Is micro finance invaluable or overrated? Without property rights, is life destined to be "nasty, brutish and short"? Has globalization been good to the poor? Should we leave economic development to the market? Should we leave economic development to non-governmental organizations (NGOs)? Does foreign aid help or hinder? Where is the best place to intervene?

Resources: OpenCourseware from MIT, UC Berkeley, Stanford & many other of the World's finest University's.

Language: English

Professors: Michael Williams

Units: 23

Lesson content
  • Syllabus  
  • Lec 1. Introduction  
  • Lec 2. What is a Poverty Trap?  
  • Lec 3. Social Experiments: Why and How?  
  • Lec 5. Is There a Nutrition-Based Poverty Trap?  
  • Lec 6. Nutrition: The Hidden Traps  
  • Lec 8. Health: Low Hanging Fruit?  
  • Lec 9. Education: Setting the Stage  
  • Lec 10. Is It Possible to Deliver Quality Education to the Poor-The Pratham-JPAL Partnership  
  • Lec 11. Education: The Man Made Trap  
  • Lec 12. (Somewhat) Un-Orthodox Findings on the Family  
  • Lec 13. How Do Families Decide?  
  • Lec 14. Gender Discrimination  
  • Lec 15. Risk and Insurance  
  • Lec 16. Insurance  
  • Lec 17. The (Not So Simple) Economics of Lending to the Poor  
  • Lec 19. The Promise and Perils of Microfinance  
  • Lec 20. Savings  
  • Lec 21. Savings 2  
  • Lec 22. Entrepreneurs and Workers  
  • Lec 24 Policies, Politics: Can Evidence Play a Role in the Fight Against Poverty?  
  • Lec 25 Policies, Politics: Can Evidence Play a Role in the Fight Against Poverty?, cont.  
  • Lec 26. Five Thoughts in Place of a Sweeing Conclusion  
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