040254 UK The challenge of Poverty (BA) (2018S)
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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from We 14.02.2018 09:00 to We 21.02.2018 12:00
- Deregistration possible until We 14.03.2018 23:59
Details
max. 50 participants
Language: English
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
Thursday
01.03.
15:00 - 16:30
Hörsaal 9 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
Tuesday
06.03.
09:45 - 11:15
Hörsaal 17 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Thursday
08.03.
15:00 - 16:30
Hörsaal 9 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
Tuesday
13.03.
09:45 - 11:15
Hörsaal 17 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Thursday
15.03.
15:00 - 16:30
Hörsaal 9 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
Tuesday
20.03.
09:45 - 11:15
Hörsaal 17 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Thursday
22.03.
15:00 - 16:30
Hörsaal 9 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
Tuesday
10.04.
09:45 - 11:15
Hörsaal 17 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Thursday
12.04.
15:00 - 16:30
Hörsaal 9 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
Tuesday
17.04.
09:45 - 11:15
Hörsaal 17 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Thursday
19.04.
15:00 - 16:30
Hörsaal 9 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
Tuesday
24.04.
09:45 - 11:15
Hörsaal 17 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Thursday
26.04.
15:00 - 16:30
Hörsaal 9 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
Thursday
03.05.
15:00 - 16:30
Hörsaal 9 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
Tuesday
08.05.
09:45 - 11:15
Hörsaal 17 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Tuesday
15.05.
09:45 - 11:15
Hörsaal 17 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Thursday
17.05.
15:00 - 16:30
Hörsaal 9 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
Thursday
24.05.
15:00 - 16:30
Hörsaal 9 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
Tuesday
29.05.
09:45 - 11:15
Hörsaal 17 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Tuesday
05.06.
09:45 - 11:15
Hörsaal 17 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Thursday
07.06.
15:00 - 16:30
Hörsaal 9 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
Tuesday
12.06.
09:45 - 11:15
Hörsaal 17 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Thursday
14.06.
15:00 - 16:30
Hörsaal 9 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
Tuesday
19.06.
09:45 - 11:15
Hörsaal 17 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Thursday
21.06.
15:00 - 16:30
Hörsaal 9 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
Tuesday
26.06.
09:45 - 11:15
Hörsaal 17 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Thursday
28.06.
15:00 - 16:30
Hörsaal 9 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
The course proposes an in-depth exploration into the most important issues of persistent world poverty. The following questions are explored through lectures, discussions, readings, and presentations: Why poverty persists? Are famines unavoidable? How do we make schools work for poor citizens? How do we deal with the disease burden? What do the poor do for a living? How do they manage their business? How do they finance themselves? Is micro finance useful or overrated? How do people make decisions under extreme poverty?
Assessment and permitted materials
Presentation and participation(30%).
Midterm (30%)
Final exam (40%).
Midterm (30%)
Final exam (40%).
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
Basic Microeconomics and Basic Econometrics.
Examination topics
Module 0: The basics of Development
A toy model of growth
What is a Poverty trap?
The role of field experiments
The Deaton’s critiqueModule 1: Food, Health and Education.
Is there a nutrition based poverty trap?
Health: low hanging fruit?
How to make the schools work for the poor?Module 2: Savings, insurance, entrepreneurship and family
The household model of the poor!
Risk and insurance.
The economics of savings for the poor
The poor and their businessModule 3: Brain and society
Poverty and Self-control
Poverty and Aspirations
Poverty and Cognition
Self-fulfilling prophecies
A toy model of growth
What is a Poverty trap?
The role of field experiments
The Deaton’s critiqueModule 1: Food, Health and Education.
Is there a nutrition based poverty trap?
Health: low hanging fruit?
How to make the schools work for the poor?Module 2: Savings, insurance, entrepreneurship and family
The household model of the poor!
Risk and insurance.
The economics of savings for the poor
The poor and their businessModule 3: Brain and society
Poverty and Self-control
Poverty and Aspirations
Poverty and Cognition
Self-fulfilling prophecies
Reading list
• Banerjee, Abhijit, and Esther Duflo. Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty. PublicAffairs, 2011. ISBN: 9781586487980. [Preview with Google Books]
Association in the course directory
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