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040254 UK The challenge of Poverty (BA) (2018S)

8.00 ECTS (4.00 SWS), SPL 4 - Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Continuous assessment of course work
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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%).

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 critique

Module 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 business

Module 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]

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