The Challenge of World Poverty (MIT 14.73, Spring 2011)

Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, who later shared the 2019 economics Nobel, teach development economics as a set of open questions: does growth help the poor, is microfinance overrated, does foreign aid help or hinder, and should development be left to markets or to NGOs. The 2011 lectures are on…

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