The Challenge of World Poverty

Video Lectures

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 21: Savings 2

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