This lecture discusses the perceived returns of education and highlights various studies done on the subject. Instructor: Abhijit Banerjee
Lecture 2 provides an introduction to the idea of poverty traps. Instructor: Esther Duflo
In this lecture, Esther Duflo talks about social experiments done to understand what interventions work best to mitigate world poverty. Instructor: Esther Duflo
In this lecture, Esther Duflo covers malnutriton and the nutrition-based poverty trap, including the relationship between productivity and nutrition. Instructor: Esther Duflo
Description: In this lecture, Esther Duflo discusses nutrition as a hidden trap. Instructor: Esther Duflo
This lecture continues the discussion from lecture 12, and also includes material on how families make decisions about family planning. Instructor: Esther Duflo
This lecture covers gender discrimination and uneven gender ratios in various countries, including India. Instructor: Abhijit Banerjee
Description: This lecture covers experiments conducted to understand savings and borrowing in Kenya and the Phillippines. Instructor: Abhijit Banerjee
Lecture 1 provides an introduction to the study of global poverty. The class discusses the challenges of world poverty. Instructor: Abhijit Banerjee
This lecture discusses some of the most effective and cheapest ways to promote good health, such as bednets, immunization and breast feeding. Instructor: Esther Duflo
This lecture covers the realities of saving and borrowing for the world's poor. Instructor: Abhijit Bannerjee
This lecture discusses what drives fertitlity decisions. Topics include family planning, population growth, quality-quantity trade off, and China's one-child policy, among other topics. Instructor: Esther Duflo
This lecture covers the themes portrayed in the film "Educating Yaparak" and examines education through the lens of economics. Instructor: Esther Duflo
MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Otto Scharmer on how there is mounting discontent with GDP as the main indicator of social and economic progress.
A brief presentation by Joseph Doyle, associate professor of applied economics.
About the Presentation The crises we encounter today could be described as a 'perfect storm.' The global financial crisis that began in 2008 has left many people with too little money and/or willingness to spend. This results in too few goods and services being ...
How can we manage the financial crisis? How do civil unrest, religion and rumors spread, and how is that related to epidemics and earthquakes? Can human behavior and societal systems be studied in the same way as biological systems and complex man-made systems? In this ...
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