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Development Economics (256 videos)
3 Food and Agricultural Productivity
- Why Agriculture is Important
- Industry Builds on Agriculture
- Green Revolution
- Micronutrients
- Productivity Decline
- GMOs
- Land reform in India
- Sharecropping
- China’s agricultural reforms
- Fertilizer, roads, and Africa
- Garlic (Optional)
- A tomato border crossing (Optional)
- Wheat, water, and Saudi Arabia (Optional)
- Yams, a man’s crop? (Optional)
- The Rice Price Spike of 2007-2008 (Optional)
- The Soy Boom (Optional)
- Malawi restricts trade in corn (Optional)
- The Clove Monopoly (Optional)
- Watermelon scale economies (Optional)
4 Water Economics
- Economic import of water
- Water markets and ethics
- Water and monopoly
- Privatizing urban water
- Water privatization in Buenos Aires
- Cochabamba water privatization
- Problems with water privatization
- Water and asymmetric information
- Water supply and demand
- Water and common pool problems
- Ground water in Yemen
- Wheat, water, and Saudi Arabia
- Water and dams
- Virtual water
- Water Policies for People, by David Zetland (Optional)
5 Geography and Development 2
8 Midterm
9 Bottlenecks, Linkages and Intermediate Goods
13 Corruption
- Corruption and Growth
- Corruption and Tech Transfer
- Corruption with Cash Transfers
- Corruption: Who Pays and How Much
- Corruption, Rent Seeking and Multiple Equilibria
- Corruption With and Without Theft
- Tullock Paradox
- Causes of Corruption
- Gender and Corruption
- Corruption and Output Composition
- Corruption, Justice, and Development
- IPaidaBribe.com
- No Considerations: Doing Business in India Without Bribes
- Corruption Indices
- Corruption and Parking Tickets
- Indian Drivers
- Anne Krueger
- Jagdish N. Bhagwati
- How to Fight Corruption
- Corruption and Public Sector Wages
17 Health
- Randomized Controlled Trials, Part One
- Randomized Controlled Trials, Part Two
- Private Health Insurance
- Cholera in Haiti
- Fighting Diarrhea
- What to do about HIV/AIDS?
- Deworming
- Pricing Mosquito Nets
- Birth Weight and Cash Transfers
- Participation in Uganda
- The Quality of Medical Advice
- The Kerala Paradox
18 Education
- Education and Economic Growth
- Education in East Asia
- Education and Latin Growth
- Private Education in India
- Teacher Attendance
- Vouchers in Colombia
- Colonial Education in India
- Parental Expectations from School
- Quantity vs. Quality of Children
- Thoughts on Education
- Conditional Cash Transfers
- Mobile phones and literacy
- The Rise of Private Education in India
- Testing for Cream Skimming in India
23 India
- India’s early growth history
- East India Company
- Land taxation in early India
- The deindustrialization of India
- Education in colonial India
- Railroads and colonial India
- Gandhi and the Salt March
- Did British rule help India?
- India since Independence
- India's toughest economic times
- India’s growth inflection
- India’s reforms of the 1990s
- Trade and poverty in India
- Agriculture in India
- Green Revolution
- Land reform in India
- Food crises and India’s media
- Power generation in India
- Foreign investment in India
- Competition from foreign retailers
- When in India, Get a Haircut
- Skyscrapers and Slums: What's Driving Mumbai's Housing Crisis?
- Rent Control in Mumbai
- No Considerations: Doing Business in India Without Bribes
- Bankruptcy law in India
- Labor market regulation
- India’s macroeconomic stability
- Castes and groundwater trade
- India’s air and water pollution
- Mobility in the caste system
- Corruption in driver’s licenses
- Lentils as incentive
- The Kerala Paradox
- The Rise of Private Education in India
- Testing for Cream Skimming in India
- Edward Luce on India
- India business profiles
- Service sector growth
- Frugal innovation for the heart
- The value of English
- Female leadership in India
- Cable TV and women
- The economics of Bollywood
- Amartya Sen #1
- Amartya Sen #2
- Amartya Sen #3
- Partha Dasgupta
- Jagdish N. Bhagwati
24 People (References/Optional)
- Guide to leading thinkers
- Paul Rosenstein-Rodan
- W. Arthur Lewis
- Raul Prebisch
- Bela Balassa
- Ragnar Nurkse
- Albert O. Hirschman
- Peter Bauer
- Adam Smith
- Joseph Schumpeter
- Alexander Gerschenkron
- Karl Polanyi
- Theodore Schultz
- Edward Banfield
- Paul Krugman
- Jagdish N. Bhagwati
- Anne Krueger
- Elinor Ostrom
- Partha Dasgupta
- Paul Romer
- William Easterly
- Jeffrey Sachs
- Joseph Stiglitz
- Robert Townsend
- Banerjee, Duflo, and Kremer
- Amartya Sen #1
- Amartya Sen #2
- Amartya Sen #3
- Paul Collier
- Dani Rodrik
- Daron Acemoglu
- Hernando de Soto
- Jeffrey Sachs | Conversations with Tyler
- Dani Rodrik | Conversations with Tyler
25 Exam
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