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
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 20: Savings
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 20: Savings
This lecture covers the realities of saving and borrowing for the world's poor. Instructor: Abhijit Bannerjee
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 12: (Somewhat) ...
The Challenge of World Poverty - Lecture 12: (Somewhat) Un-Orthodox ...
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
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