Development Economics¶
Overview¶
- Why are some countries so poor and some so rich
- What are the particular economic problems faced by countries that are poor, and how do we model and understand these phenomena
- What could be done to help solve market failures in poor countries
- What went right
- What risk going wrong? Is the COVID-19 crisis reversal here to stay
- Poverty traps
- Human capital
- Source
- Heterogeneity
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Why people are not investing optimally in
- Education
- Health
- Nutrition
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Capital
- Heterogeneity
- Credit & savings
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Land
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Labor markets: Allocation of labor
- Productivity
- Technology
- Organization of firms
References¶
- Development Economics | MIT
- Development Macroeconomics | MIT
- The Challenge of World Poverty | MIT
- IIT Roorkee | Health Economics
- The Economy: A South Asian Perspective | The CORE Econ Team