Course 8 of 15 · 10 lessons

Development Economics

Why are some countries still poor? Ten lessons on poverty and what the evidence says works: the poverty line, geography and institutions, families, aid, loans, farms, schools, corruption and phones, with one farmer on a toy island and real numbers. The course shows how each idea works and what it costs; it never says which policy is right.

• 10 LESSONS
• ABOUT 15 MIN EACH
• NOTHING YOU GUESS IS STORED

Finished the ten lessons? Go on to the ninth course, Economic History: Booms and Busts.