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Two centuries ago, by historians' rough estimates, most people alive were desperately poor. Today a much smaller share are, yet hundreds of millions still live on a few dollars a day. How did so many escape, and why did others not?

This course follows economists as they argue about that puzzle: geography against institutions, big aid plans against small experiments, South Korea and Botswana against countries that stalled. It ends with a question for each of us, posed by Peter Singer's drowning child, and with a reminder that poor people are the main authors of their own progress.

Levels

  1. 1 1. Measuring Poverty and Development 5-question quiz
  2. 2 2. Why Some Nations Are Rich 5-question quiz
  3. 3 3. Growth Stories 5-question quiz
  4. 4 4. Aid and Its Debates 5-question quiz
  5. 5 5. Trade, Debt and Globalization 5-question quiz
  6. 6 6. Health, Education and Women's Empowerment 5-question quiz
  7. 7 7. Governance, Conflict and Fragile States 5-question quiz
  8. 8 8. The Ethics of Global Poverty 5-question quiz

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