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ESG freshman Joel Schneider uses Lagrange Multipliers applied to microeconomics. Read more about the Experimental Study Group: http://esg.mit.edu/
About the Presentation We are in the early stages of a very important transformation—the transition to a digital money ecosystem. This transformation is likely to be among the most exciting, important, and challenging initiatives the world will undertake in the ...
Evangelos is currently deputy head of the Risk Management Division in the European Central Bank (ECB). Since January 1, 1999, the ECB has been responsible for conducting monetary policy for the Euro area--the world's largest economy after the United States. The ECB's ...
Has the age of 2% annual growth in jobs and salary levels come to an end in the West? Will the jobs drain to the East quicken? Are policymakers leading us away from the precipice or towards it? Often contrarian, Jon Moynihan's lecture draws on his decades of experience ...
This lecture covers the themes portrayed in the film "Educating Yaparak" and examines education through the lens of economics. Instructor: Esther Duflo
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
Description: In this lecture, Esther Duflo discusses nutrition as a hidden trap. 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
In this lecture, Esther Duflo talks about social experiments done to understand what interventions work best to mitigate world poverty. Instructor: Esther Duflo
Lecture 2 provides an introduction to the idea of poverty traps. Instructor: Esther Duflo
Description: The professor provides some final thoughts to conclude the course on the challenges of world poverty. Instructor: Abhijit Banerjee
Description: This lecture discusses the impact of political economics on the world's poor. Instructor: Abhijit Banerjee
Description: This lecture discusses theories and policies developed to help fight poverty. Instructor: Abhijit Banerjee
Description: This lecture talks about the relationship between the poor and entrepreneurship. Instructor: Abhijit Banerjee
Description: This lecture covers experiments conducted to understand savings and borrowing in Kenya and the Phillippines. Instructor: Abhijit Banerjee
This lecture covers the realities of saving and borrowing for the world's poor. Instructor: Abhijit Bannerjee
Description: This lecture discusses the topic of pros and cons of microfinance for the poor. Instructor: Abhijit Banerjee
Description: This lecture covers credit and lending to the world's poor. Instructor: Esther Duflo
This lecture covers risk and insurance for the world's poor. Instructor: Abhijit Banerjee
This lecture discusses the ways in which risk is costly to the poor and if insurance is beneficial to this population. Instructor: Abhijit Banerjee