MIT Sloan Experts | Changing the Finance-Driven Economic ...
MIT Sloan Experts | Changing the Finance-Driven Economic Mindset
MIT Sloan Professor of Management Thomas Kochan discusses how financial analysts have pressured businesses to perform financially.
MIT Sloan Experts | Argentina's inflation rate deception
MIT Sloan Experts | Argentina's inflation rate deception
Alberto Cavallo, the Cecil and Ida Green Career Development Assistant Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management, discusses how Argentina has lied about its inflation rate.
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 22: Entrepreneurs ...
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 22: Entrepreneurs and Workers
Description: This lecture talks about the relationship between the poor and entrepreneurship. Instructor: Abhijit Banerjee
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 24: Policies, ...
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 24: Policies, Politics: Can ...
Description: This lecture discusses theories and policies developed to help fight poverty. Instructor: Abhijit Banerjee
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 25: Policies, ...
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 25: Policies, Politics: Can ...
Description: This lecture discusses the impact of political economics on the world's poor. Instructor: Abhijit Banerjee
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 26: Five Thoughts ...
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 26: Five Thoughts in Place of a ...
Description: The professor provides some final thoughts to conclude the course on the challenges of world poverty. Instructor: Abhijit Banerjee
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 15: Risk and ...
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 15: Risk and Insurance
This lecture discusses the ways in which risk is costly to the poor and if insurance is beneficial to this population. Instructor: Abhijit Banerjee
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 16: Insurance
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 16: Insurance
This lecture covers risk and insurance for the world's poor. Instructor: Abhijit Banerjee
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 17: The (Not So ...
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 17: The (Not So Simple) Economics ...
Description: This lecture covers credit and lending to the world's poor. Instructor: Esther Duflo
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 19: The Promise ...
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 19: The Promise and Perils of ...
Description: This lecture discusses the topic of pros and cons of microfinance for the poor. Instructor: Abhijit Banerjee
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 11: Education: The ...
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 11: Education: The Man Made Trap
This lecture discusses the perceived returns of education and highlights various studies done on the subject. Instructor: Abhijit Banerjee
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 2: What is a ...
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 2: What is a Poverty Trap?
Lecture 2 provides an introduction to the idea of poverty traps. Instructor: Esther Duflo
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 3: Social ...
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 3: Social Experiments: Why and ...
In this lecture, Esther Duflo talks about social experiments done to understand what interventions work best to mitigate world poverty. Instructor: Esther Duflo
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 5: Is There a ...
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 5: Is There a Nutrition-Based ...
In this lecture, Esther Duflo covers malnutriton and the nutrition-based poverty trap, including the relationship between productivity and nutrition. Instructor: Esther Duflo
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 6: Nutrition: The ...
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 6: Nutrition: The Hidden Traps
Description: In this lecture, Esther Duflo discusses nutrition as a hidden trap. Instructor: Esther Duflo
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 13: How Do ...
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 13: How Do Families Decide?
This lecture continues the discussion from lecture 12, and also includes material on how families make decisions about family planning. Instructor: Esther Duflo
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 14: Gender ...
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 14: Gender Discrimination
This lecture covers gender discrimination and uneven gender ratios in various countries, including India. Instructor: Abhijit Banerjee
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 21: Savings 2
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 21: Savings 2
Description: This lecture covers experiments conducted to understand savings and borrowing in Kenya and the Phillippines. Instructor: Abhijit Banerjee
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 1: Introduction
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 1: Introduction
Lecture 1 provides an introduction to the study of global poverty. The class discusses the challenges of world poverty. Instructor: Abhijit Banerjee
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 8: Health: Low ...
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 8: Health: Low Hanging Fruit?
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