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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

In this lecture, Esther Duflo covers the 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.

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

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

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

In this lecture, Esther Duflo talks about experiments done to understand what interventions work best to mitigate world poverty.

Lecture 1 provides an introduction to the study of global poverty. The class watches two videos featuring opposing views of the effect of aid on poor countries.