More on “The Challenges of Global Poverty”

To help keep up with my classes, I have decided to post about the readings and some of the videos that we are using in my classes. I am detailing each class on it’s own page, separate from the other books I am reading.

The course, The Challenges of Global Poverty , is offered through edX and MITx. The course description states:

“This is a course for those who are interested in the challenge posed by massive and persistent world poverty, and are hopeful that economists might have something useful to say about this challenge. The questions we will take up include: Is extreme poverty a thing of the past? What is economic life like when living under a dollar per day? Are the poor always hungry? How do we make schools work for poor citizens? How do we deal with the disease burden? Is microfinance invaluable or overrated? Without property rights, is life destined to be “nasty, brutish and short”? Should we leave economic development to the market? Should we leave economic development to non-governmental organizations (NGOs)? Does foreign aid help or hinder? Where is the best place to intervene? And many others. At the end of this course, you should have a good sense of the key questions asked by scholars interested in poverty today, and hopefully a few answers as well.”

To see the course page, learn more about this course, or find out more about the professors, click here.