The professor provides some final thoughts to conclude the course on the challenges of world poverty.

Lecture 26: Five Thoughts in Place of a Sweeing Conclusion

This lecture covers risk and insurance for the world's poor.

Lecture 16: Insurance

This lecture discusses the ways in which risk is costly to the poor and if insurance is beneficial to this population.

Lecture 15: Risk and Insurance

This lecture discusses the impact of political economics on the world's poor.

Lecture 25: Policies, Politics: Can Evidence Play a Role in the Fight Against Poverty?, cont.

This lecture talks about the relationship between the poor and entrepreneurship.

Lecture 22: Entrepreneurs and Workers

This lecture discusses theories and policies developed to help fight poverty.

Lecture 24: Policies, Politics: Can Evidence Play a Role in the Fight Against Poverty?

This lecture covers experiments conducted to understand savings and borrowing in Kenya and the Philippines.

Lecture 21: Savings 2

This lecture covers the realities of saving and borrowing for the world's poor.

Lecture 20: Savings

This lecture covers credit and lending to the world's poor.

Lecture 17: The (Not So Simple) Economics of Lending to the Poor

This lecture discusses the pros and cons of microfinance options for the poor.

Lecture 19: The Promise and Perils of Microfinance

This lecture cover gender discrimination and uneven gender ratios in various countries, including India.

Lecture 14: Gender Discrimination

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.

Lecture 12: (Somewhat) Un-Orthodox Findings on the Family

This lecture continues the discussion from lecture 12, and also includes material on how families make decisions about family planning.

Lecture 13: How Do Families Decide?

This lecture discusses the perceived returns of education and highlights various studies done on the subject.

Lecture 11: Education: The Man Made Trap

In this lecture, Esther Duflo discusses nutrition as a hidden trap.

Lecture 6: Nutrition: The Hidden Traps

In this lecture, Esther Duflo covers the nutrition-based poverty trap.

Lecture 5: Is There a Nutrition-Based Poverty Trap?

This lecture discusses various experiments and interventions in education, specifically in India. The work of the organization, Pratham, is also covered.

Lecture 10: Is It Possible to Deliver Quality Education to the Poor-The Pratham-JPAL Partnership

This lecture discusses some of the most effective and cheapest ways to promote good health, such as bednets, immunization, and breast feeding.

Lecture 8: Health: Low Hanging Fruit?

This lecture covers the themes portrayed in the film Educating Yaparak and examines education through the lens of economics.

Lecture 9: Education: Setting the Stage

This lecture provides an introduction to the idea of poverty traps.

Lecture 2: What is a Poverty Trap?

I’m very glad I found this course. It opened my eyes to the many issues and challenges surrounding poverty issues. The two professors use real-world, personal examples from their research trips to explain the 5 W’s. Another aspect I really enjoyed about the class was that I fully understand each lecture without any extra effort.

Two reasons I can’t give it five stars - one of the professors is extremely difficult to listen to. I won’t name names, but after one lecture by each professor you can figure it out. And like someone already said in another review - some of the examples/themes appear to repeat over and over and over as the class continues. Additionally examples or deeper analysis would be appreciated.

Nevertheless, this is a great course for anyone interested in global poverty and very easy to understand. You don’t need to have a college degree or virtually any background in economics to understand the professors.

Opened my eyes!

It&#39;s not as compelling as other lectures and classes, and it can be a bit dull. While it does a good job laying out issues, it gets very repetitive after a while.

It's ok

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