Tag: poverty
Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 06 — Nutrition: The Hidden Traps
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In this lecture, Prof. Esther Duflo discusses nutrition as a hidden trap. 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.
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 10 — Is It Possible to Deliver Quality Education to the Poor…
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Is it possible to Deliver Quality Education to the Poor: The Pratham-JPAL Partnership. Prof. Esther Duflo's lecture discusses various experiments and interventions in education, specifically in India. The work of the ...
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 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 05 — Is There a Nutrition-Based Poverty Trap?
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In this lecture, Prof. Esther Duflo covers malnutriton and the nutrition-based poverty trap, including the relationship between productivity and nutrition. 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 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 13 — How Do Families Decide?
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Prof. Esther Duflo continues the discussion from lecture 12, and also includes material on how families make decisions about family planning. Recorded 2011.
