| SES # | TOPICS | HANDOUTS |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Measure of World Poverty | |
| 2 | The Record of Growth (PDF) | Pritchett, Lant. "Divergence, Big Time." The Journal of Economic Perspectives 11, no. 3 (Summer 1997): 10-11. |
| 3 | The Historical Context of Growth: Colonialism, Globalization and All That |  Banerjee, Abhijit V., Roland Benabou, and Dilip Mookherjee, eds. Understanding Poverty. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 23, 25, 26, 27, 30, 31, 45, 46, 49, 50, 52, and 56. ISBN: 9780195305203. |
| 4 | Can Foreign Aid Help? | |
| 5 | The Economic Lives of the Poor | Banerjee, Abhijit, and Esther Duflo. Tables 1-12 in "The Economic Lives of the Poor." The Journal of Economic Perspectives 21, no. 1 (Winter 2007): 141-167. |
| 6 | Improving Education (PDF) | |
| 7 | Health and Fertility (PDF) | |
| 8 | Delivering Healthcare | |
| 9 | The Poor and Financial Services 1 (PDF) | |
| 10 | The Poor and Financial Services 2 (PDF) | |
| 11 | Negotiating with Corruption (PDF) | Bertrand, Marianne, Simeon Djankov, Rema Hanna, and Sendhil Mullainathan. Tables 1-9 in "Does Corruption Produce Unsafe Drivers?" National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 12274, June 2006, pp. 34-41. |
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