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Ever since Adam Smith has written “The Wealth of Nations” there is a question about rich and poor
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Course Credit: MR University
Module: 1
Basic Facts of Growth and Development 00:13:00
The Importance of Institutions (Brief) 00:06:00
Guns, Germs and Steel 00:18:00
How Persistent is Prosperity? (Optional) 00:07:00
Geography and Development, Trade 00:11:00
Geography and Development, Disease 00:11:00
Why Agriculture is Important 00:02:00
Industry Builds on Agriculture 00:03:00
Green Revolution 00:04:00
Micronutrients 00:03:00
Productivity Decline 00:04:00
Module: 2
GMOs 00:12:00
Land reform in India 00:06:00
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Sharecropping 00:05:00
China’s agricultural reforms 00:05:00
Fertilizer, roads, and Africa 00:02:00
Garlic (Optional) 00:02:00
A tomato border crossing (Optional) 00:04:00
Wheat, water, and Saudi Arabia (Optional) 00:03:00
Yams, a man’s crop? (Optional) 00:03:00
The Rice Price Spike of 2007-2008 (Optional) 00:04:00
The Soy Boom (Optional) 00:02:00
Module: 3
Malawi restricts trade in corn (Optional) 00:05:00
The Clove Monopoly (Optional) 00:03:00
Watermelon scale economies (Optional) 00:03:00
Economic import of water 00:02:00
Water markets and ethics 00:03:00
Water and Monopoly 00:03:00
Privatizing urban water 00:02:00
Water privatization in Buenos Aires 00:07:00

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Cochabamba water privatization 00:04:00
Problems with water privatization 00:04:00
Water and asymmetric information 00:03:00
Module: 4
Water supply and demand 00:07:00
Water and common pool problem 00:06:00
Ground water in Yemen 00:05:00
Wheat, water, and Saudi Arabia 00:03:00
Water and dams 00:03:00
Virtual water 00:02:00
Water Policies for People, by David Zetland (Optional) 00:08:00
The Reversal of Fortune 00:03:00
The Effect of Geography on Institutions 00:18:00
Adam Smith (Optional) 00:05:00
Jeffrey Sachs (Optional) 00:07:00
Module: 5
Trust and economic growth 00:07:00
The Solow Model (Brief, no math) 00:08:00

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The Middle Income Trap 00:05:00
What Is the Rule of 70? 00:03:00
Premature Deindustrialization 00:09:00
Purchasing Power Parity: When in India, Get a Haircut 00:04:00
GDP & PPP 00:17:00
The Solow Model 1 – Introduction 00:15:00
The Solow Model 2: Comparative Statics 00:13:00
The Solow Model 3 — Taking the Model to Data 00:17:00
The Solow Model 4 – Productivity 00:17:00
Module: 6
Development Economics Midterm 00:01:00
Double Marginalization Problem 00:13:00
O-Ring Model 00:19:00
Paul Romer (Optional) 00:16:00
Productivity in Firms 00:07:00
Productivity and rm size 00:02:00
Two myths about multinationals 00:06:00
Calculation of pro t and loss 00:08:00

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Industrial policy: theory 00:07:00
Industrial policy: evidence 00:07:00
Conditional convergence 00:04:00
Module: 7
Local monopoly power 00:04:00
Comparative Advantage 00:12:00
Comparative Advantage 2:Homework 00:05:00
Sources of Comparative Advantage 00:08:00
Development and Trade: Empirical Evidence 00:15:00
Trade and Tariff History 00:04:00
Trade and Poverty in India 00:04:00
Does “Fair Trade” Help? 00:06:00
World Trade Organization 00:07:00
Module: 8
Property Rights 1: Private v. Collective 00:09:00
Property Rights 2: Titling 00:10:00
Property Rights 3: Communal Property, Enclosure and the State 00:08:00
Hernando de Soto (Optional) 00:08:00

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Corruption and Growth 00:04:00
Corruption and Tech Transfer 00:05:00
Corruption with Cash Transfers 00:04:00
Corruption: Who Pays and How Much 00:04:00
Corruption, Rent Seeking and Multiple Equilibria 00:13:00
Corruption with and without Theft 00:05:00
Tullock Paradox 00:03:00
Module: 9
Causes of Corruption 00:08:00
Gender and Corruption 00:04:00
Corruption and Output Composition 00:01:00
Corruption, Justice, and Development 00:10:00
IPaidaBribe com 00:02:00
No Considerations: Doing Business in India Without Bribes 00:11:00
Corruption Indices 00:02:00
Corruption and Parking Tickets 00:05:00
Indian Drivers 00:03:00
Anne Krueger 00:04:00

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Jagdish N. Bhagwati 00:02:00
Module: 10
How to Fight Corruption 00:02:00
Corruption and Public Sector Wages 00:03:00
Recipients and Donors: Basic Facts ! 00:10:00
Does Foreign Aid Increase Growth? 00:10:00
Knowledge Problems and Incentive Problems 00:05:00
Examples of Aid that Works 00:05:00
The World Bank 00:07:00
The IMF 00:07:00
Millennium Villages Project 00:09:00
Finance and Growth 00:16:00
Finance Law and Trust (Mexico) 00:08:00
Module: 11
Introduction to Micro nance (Portfolios of the Poor) 00:07:00
Why Microcredit? 00:04:00
Why Microsavings? 00:02:00
ROSCAs and Chit Funds 00:08:00

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Microcredit Evidence 00:03:00
Robert Townsend 00:05:00
Earning Money 00:04:00
Spending Money 00:03:00
Are the Poor Overwhelmed? 00:03:00
Poverty and Attention 00:03:00
Conditional Cash Transfers 00:03:00
Module: 12
AmartyaSen #1 on Capabilities 00:04:00
AmartyaSen #2 “Missing Women” 00:07:00
“The Other Path” 00:07:00
Edward Ban eld 00:03:00
Child Labor 00:06:00
Bonded Labor 00:05:00
Randomized Controlled Trials, Part One 00:10:00
Randomized Controlled Trials, Part Two 00:09:00
Private Health Insurance 00:04:00
Cholera in Haiti 00:05:00

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Fighting Diarrhea 00:04:00
Module: 13
What to do about HIV/AIDS? 00:04:00
Deworming 00:03:00
Pricing Mosquito Nets 00:03:00
Birth Weight and Cash Transfers 00:04:00
Participation in Uganda 00:03:00
The Quality of Medical Advice 00:04:00
The Kerala Paradox 00:08:00
Education and Economic Growth 00:04:00
Education in East Asia 00:04:00
Education and Latin Growth 00:04:00
Teacher Attendance 00:03:00
Module: 14
Vouchers in Colombia 00:02:00
Colonial Education in India 00:02:00
Parental Expectations from School 00:03:00
Quantity vs. Quality of Children 00:06:00

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Thoughts on Education 00:08:00
Conditional Cash Transfers 00:03:00
Mobile phones and literacy 00:03:00
The Rise of Private Education in India 00:10:00
Testing for Cream Skimming in India 00:11:00
Democracy and Reforms 00:07:00
The Theory of the Median Voter 00:08:00
Module: 15
The Agenda Setter 00:08:00
Roving and Stationary Bandits 00:05:00
Democracy in the Arab World 00:04:00
African Borders and Con ict 00:05:00
Will China Democratize? 00:06:00
Is there a Natural Resource Curse? 00:06:00
SenIII Democracy and Famines 00:03:00
Basic Facts about Migration 00:04:00
Wage Gains from Immigration 00:03:00
Remittances 00:04:00

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Is there a Brain Drain? 00:05:00
Module: 16
Wage Effects in the U.S. 00:08:00
Internal Chinese Migration 00:04:00
Demographic Transitions 00:09:00
Population and Economic Growth 00:07:00
The Malthusian Argument 00:06:00
The African Demographic Dividend 00:04:00
Environmental Economics 00:07:00
Temperature and Growth 00:04:00
Skyscrapers and Slums: What’s Driving Mumbai’s Housing Crisis? 00:08:00
Rent Control in Mumbai 00:09:00
Rent Control in Mumbai 00:09:00
Module: 17
East India Company 00:07:00
Land taxation in early India 00:02:00
The deindustrialization of India 00:05:00
Education in colonial India 00:02:00

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Railroads and colonial India 00:04:00
Gandhi and the Salt March 00:05:00
Did British rule help India? 00:08:00
India since Independence 00:02:00
India’s toughest economic times 00:04:00
India’s growth in ection 00:05:00
India’s reforms of the 1990s 00:05:00
Module: 18
Trade and Poverty in India 00:04:00
Agriculture in India 00:06:00
Green Revolution 00:04:00
Land reform in India 00:06:00
Food crises and India’s media 00:07:00
Power generation in India 00:05:00
Foreign investment in India 00:04:00
Competition from foreign retailers 00:06:00
Purchasing Power Parity: When in India, Get a Haircut 00:04:00
Skyscrapers and Slums: What’s Driving Mumbai’s Housing Crisis? 00:08:00

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Rent Control in Mumbai 00:09:00
Module: 19
No Considerations: Doing Business in India Without Bribes 00:11:00
Bankruptcy law in India 00:04:00
Labor market regulation 00:06:00
India’s macroeconomic stability 00:04:00
Castes and groundwater trade 00:04:00
India’s air and water pollution 00:05:00
Mobility in the caste system 00:05:00
Corruption in driver’s licenses 00:03:00
Lentils as incentive 00:03:00
The Kerala Paradox 00:08:00
Module: 20
The Rise of Private Education in India 00:10:00
Testing for Cream Skimming in India 00:11:00
Edward Luce on India 00:05:00
India business pro les 00:04:00
Service sector growth 00:06:00

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Frugal innovation for the heart 00:04:00
The value of English 00:03:00
Female leadership in India 00:04:00
Cable TV and women 00:03:00
The economics of Bollywood 00:06:00
Module: 21
Amartya Sen #1 00:04:00
Amartya Sen #2 00:07:00
Amartya Sen #3 00:03:00
Partha Dasgupta 00:03:00
Jagdish N. Bhagwati 00:02:00
Guide to Leading Thinkers 00:02:00
Paul Rosenstein Rodan 00:04:00
W. Arthur Lewis 00:04:00
Raul Prebisch 00:02:00
Bela Balassa 00:06:00
Ragnar Nurkse 00:03:00
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Peter Bauer 00:04:00
Adam Smith 00:06:00
Joseph Schumpeter 00:02:00
Alexander Gerschenkron 00:04:00
Karl Polanyi 00:05:00
Theodore Schultz 00:03:00
Edward Ban eld 00:03:00
Paul Krugman 00:09:00
Jagdish N. Bhagwati 00:02:00
Anne Krueger 00:04:00
Elinor Ostrom 00:04:00
Module: 23
Partha Dasgupta 00:03:00
Paul Romer 00:16:00
William Easterly 00:10:00
Jeffrey Sachs 00:07:00
Joseph Stiglitz 00:04:00

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Banerjee, Du o, and Kremer 00:04:00
Module: 24
Amartya Sen #1 00:04:00
Amartya Sen #2 00:07:00
Amartya Sen #3 00:03:00
Paul Collier 00:04:00
Dani Rodrik 00:05:00
Daron Acemoglu 00:06:00
Hernando de Soto 00:07:00
Jeffrey Sachs (full) | Conversations with Tyler 01:32:00
Dani Rodrik (full) | Conversations with Tyler 01:24:00
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