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Foundations of Development Policy, Spring 2004
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Abstract: Explores the foundations of policy making in developing countries. Goal is to spell out various policy options and to quantify the trade-offs between them. Special emphasis on education, health, gender, fertility, adoption of technological innovation, and the markets for land, credit, and labor.
One Nation: Two Futures?
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Abstract: Since the mid-l970s, economic reforms have transformed China from one of the most egalitarian societies into one of the most unequal in the world. Wide disparities currently exist between the income levels of a relatively few rich and middle-class Chinese and their fellow citizens who number in the hundreds ... More »
Special Topics in Economics: The Challenge of World Poverty, Fall 2006
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Abstract: This is a course for those who are interested in the challenge posed by massive and persistent world poverty, have some economics, and believe that economists might have something useful to say about this question. The questions we will take up include: Is extreme poverty a thing of the past? Why do ... More »
Theories and Methods in the Study of History, Fall 2004
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Abstract: Focuses on the development of social and cultural history in the twentieth century since the rise of the Annales school. Topics include: agrarian history; class, race, and gender as historical categories; historical demography, new economic, military, and environmental history; and history on film. Topics ... More »
