MITx: 14.

73x The Challenges of Global Poverty Help

Schedule
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Topic Dates Lectures Homework Due Date Finger Exercise Due Date
                            

What this
course is
about    Finger  
How to     HW
interact with  Exercises
Introduction Sept. 26 - Oct. 1
the course (none)

(Please (none)
complete the
Entrance
Survey)
 What is a
poverty trap?

Learning what
works: The
role of
Poverty Traps and experiments
Oct. 2 - Oct. 8 Oct. 8th (none)
Experiments Behind the
scenes videos

(Please
complete the
Entrance
Survey)

Food I: Is
there a
nutrition-
based poverty
trap?
Food Oct. 9 - Oct. 15 Oct. 15 Oct. 15
Food II: The
hidden traps

Behind the
scenes video

Health I:
Delivering
Health Oct. 16 - Oct. 22 healthcare Oct. 22 Oct. 22
Health II: Low-
hanging fruit
 Education I:
Setting the
stage

Education II:
How to make
schools work
Education Oct. 23 - Oct. 29 for the poor Oct. 29 Oct. 29
Education III:
Beyond
supply and
demand wars

Behind the
scenes video

Family I:
(Somewhat)
unorthodox
findings on
the family

Family II:
What drives
Family Oct. 30 - Nov. 5 fertility Nov. 5 Nov. 5
decisions?

Family III:
Gender
discrimination

Behind the
scenes video

Risk and
Insurance I
Risk and Insurance Nov. 6 - Nov. 12 Nov. 12 Nov. 12
Risk and
Insurance II
 Credit I: The
not-so-simple
economics of
lending to the
poor

Credit Nov. 13 - Nov. 19 Credit II: The Nov. 19 Nov. 19

promise and
perils of
microfinance

Behind the
scenes video

Savings I
Savings Nov. 20 - Nov. 26 Nov. 26 Nov. 26
Savings II

Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship Nov. 27 - Dec. 3 Dec. 3 Dec. 3
and workers

Policies and
politics: Can
evidence play
a role in the
fight against
Institutions Dec. 4 - Dec. 10 poverty? Dec. 10 Dec. 10

Policies and
politics Part II

Policies and
politics Part III
 In place of a
sweeping
conclusion

Last
thoughts by
students
Conclusion Dec. 11 (none) (none)
and the
professors

(Please
complete
the Exit
Survey)

Dec. 17
(Please
(23:30
Final Exam Dec. 14 (00:00 UTC) complete the
UTC)
Exit Survey)

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