Esther Duflo (MIT) gives the 15th Barcelona Economics lecture of the Barcelona GSE Research Network on January 14, 2009. The talk is titled "Fighting Poverty Effectively: Creating Experimentation in Development Economics.
Markets don't eradicate poverty traps, they simply organize production and distribution. If there are poor natural resources, little capital, and problems with health and security, it will not be possible for a market to create enough value so that people spend their money on just getting by.
It cannot be the case that it is fundamentally impossible to give useful aid. That's just insane.
Markets don't eradicate poverty traps, they simply organize production and distribution. If there are poor natural resources, little capital, and problems with health and security, it will not be possible for a market to create enough value so that people spend their money on just getting by.
It cannot be the case that it is fundamentally impossible to give useful aid. That's just insane.
hymnofashes 2 years ago
very bad English pronunciation
edmar201011 2 years ago
In this segment, Duflo lays out the basic development "camps" - Sachs, Easterly, Collier [aid, markets, institutions].
derrillwat 2 years ago