The Challenge of

World  Poverty

Esther Duflo & Abhijit Banerjee - MIT 

1. Introduction: The Challenge of World Poverty

2. What is a Poverty Trap

3. Social Experiments: Why and How?

4. (Deleted)

5. Is There a Nutrition-Based Poverty Trap

6. Nutrition: The Hidden Trap

7. Reading

8. Health: Low Hanging Fruit?

9. Education: Setting the Stage

10. Is it Possible to Deliver Quality Education to the Poor: The Pratham-JPAL Partnership

11. Education: The Man Made Trap

12. (Somewhat) Un-Orthodox Findings on the Family

13. How do Families Decide?

14. Gender Discrimination

15. Risk & Insurance

16. Insurance

17. The (Not so Simple) Economics of Lending to the Poor

18. Reading

19. The Promise & Perils of Microfinance

20. Savings I

21. Savings II

22. Entrepreneurs & Workers

23. Reading

24. Policies, Politics: Can Evidence Play a Role in the Fight Against Poverty? I

25. Policies, Politics: Can Evidence Play a Role in the Fight Against Poverty? II

26. Five Thoughts in Place of a Sweeping Conclusion