Tag: politics
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 02 — What is a Poverty Trap?
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Prof. Esther Duflo provides an introduction to the idea of poverty traps. Recorded 2011.
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 11 — Education: The Man Made Trap
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Prof. Abhijit Banerjee discusses the perceived returns of education and highlights various studies done on the subject. Recorded 2011.
Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 01 — Introduction
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Prof. Abhijit Banerjee provides an introduction to the study of global poverty. The class dicusses the challenges of world poverty. 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 15 — Risk and Insurance
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Prof. Abhijit Banerjee discusses the ways in which risk is costly to the poor and if insurance is beneficial to this population. Recorded 2011.
Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 03 — Social Experiments: Why and How?
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In this lecture, Prof. Esther Duflo talks about social experiments done to understand what interventions work best to mitigate world poverty. Recorded 2011.
Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 08 — Health: Low Hanging Fruit?
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Prof. Esther Duflo discusses some of the most effective and cheapest ways to promote good health, such as bednets, immunization, and breast feeding. Recorded 2011.
