The Challenge of World Poverty (M-I-T)

• Lecture 1 Introduction
• Lecture 2 What is a Poverty Trap?
• Lecture 3 Social Experiments Why and How?
• Lecture 5 Is There a Nutrition-Based Poverty Trap?
• Lecture 6 Nutrition The Hidden Traps
• Lecture 8 Health Low Hanging Fruit?
• Lecture 9 Education Setting the Stage
• Lecture 10 Is It Possible to Deliver Quality Education to the Poor-The Pratham-JPAL Partnership
• Lecture 11 Education The Man Made Trap
• Lecture 12 (Somewhat) Un-Orthodox Findings on the Family
• Lecture 13 How Do Families Decide?
• Lecture 14 Gender Discrimination
• Lecture 15 Risk and Insurance
• Lecture 16 Insurance
• Lecture 17 The (Not So Simple) Economics of Lending to the Poor
• Lecture 19 The Promise and Perils of Microfinance
• Lecture 20 Savings
• Lecture 22 Entrepreneurs and Workers
• Lecture 24 Policies, Politics Can Evidence Play a Role in the Fight Against Poverty?
• Lecture 25 Policies, Politics Can Evidence Play a Role in the Fight Against Poverty?, cont.
• Lecture 26 Five Thoughts in Place of a Sweeping Conclusion