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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Foundations of Development Policy

Massachusetts Institute of Technology via MITx Online

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Examine the different facets of human development through modern empirical methods in economics while working with real data.

Syllabus

  • Poverty and undernutrition
  • Nutrition and productivity
  • Benefits of education and schooling decisions
  • Gender and household bargaining power
  • Insurance and dealing with risk
  • Land, risk aversion, and property rights
  • Credit market, constraints, and the classic microcredit model
  • Behavioral barriers to saving
  • Public finance, taxation, targeting, and transparency
  • Political economy
  • Measuring, modeling, and combatting corruption

Taught by

Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Benjamin Olken

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