Category: Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 (Challenge of World Poverty)
Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 26 — Five Thoughts in Place of a Sweeping Conclusion
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Five Thoughts in Place of a Sweeping Conclusion. Prof. Abhijit Banerjee provides some final thoughts to conclude the course on the challenges of world poverty. Recorded 2011.
Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 24 — Policies, Politics: Can Evidence Play a Role… Part 1
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Policies, Politics: Can Evidence Play a Role in the Fight Against Poverty? (Part 1). Prof. Abhijit Banerjee discusses theories and policies developed to help fight poverty. Recorded 2011.
Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 17 — The (Not So Simple) Economics of Lending to the Poor
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Prof. Esther Duflo covers credit and lending to the world's poor. Recorded 2011.
Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 21 — Savings Part 2
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Prof. Abhijit Banerjee's lecture covers experiments conducted to understand savings and borrowing in Kenya and the Phillippines. Recorded 2011.
Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 12 — (Somewhat) Un-Orthodox Findings on the Family
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Prof. Esther Duflo discusses what drives fertility decisions. Topics include family planning, population growth, quality-quantity trade off, and China's one-child policy, among other topics. Recorded 2011.
Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 25 — Policies, Politics: Can Evidence Play a Role… Part 2
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Policies, Politics: Can Evidence Play a Role in the Fight Against Poverty? (Part 2). Professor Abhijit Banerjee discusses the impact of political economics on the world's poor. Recorded 2011.
Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 19 — The Promise and Perils of Microfinance
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Prof. Abhijit Banerjee discusses the topic of pros and cons of microfinance for the poor. Recorded 2011.
Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 16 — Insurance
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Prof. Abhijit Banerjee's lecture covers risk and insurance for the world's poor. Recorded 2011.
Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 14 — Gender Discrimination
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Prof. Abhijit Banerjee covers gender discrimination and uneven gender ratios in various countries, including India. Recorded 2011.
Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 22 — Entrepreneurs and Workers
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Prof. Abhijit Banerjee talks about the relationship between the poor and entrepreneurship. Recorded 2011.