A course for those who are interested in the challenge posed by massive and persistent world poverty.
We encourage our website viewers to browse and study the content of this unique course shedding light on some of today's most challenging questions facing humanity.
What is EdX:
EdX offers interactive online classes from the world’s best universities. Online courses from MITx, HarvardX, BerkeleyX, UTx and many other universities. Topics include biology, business, chemistry, computer science, economics, finance, electronics, engineering, food and nutrition, history, humanities, law, literature, math, medicine, music, philosophy, physics, science, statistics and more. EdX is a non-profit online initiative created by founding partners Harvard and MIT.
More information about the course:
https://www.edx.org/course/mitx/mitx-14-73x-challenges-global-poverty-585
This is a course for those who are interested in the challenge posed by massive and persistent world poverty. This course attempts to answer questions about extreme poverty, the nature of human life when living with less than a dollar per day? Are the poor always hungry? How do we make schools work for poor citizens? How do we deal with the disease burden? Is microfinance invaluable or overrated? Without property rights, is life destined to be "nasty, brutish and short"? Should we leave economic development to the market? Should we leave economic development to non-governmental organizations (NGOs)? Does foreign aid help or hinder? Where is the best place to intervene? And many others. At the end of this course, you should have a good sense of the key questions asked by scholars interested in poverty today, and hopefully a few answers as well.
No prerequisites.
We encourage our website viewers to browse and study the content of this unique course shedding light on some of today's most challenging questions facing humanity.
What is EdX:
EdX offers interactive online classes from the world’s best universities. Online courses from MITx, HarvardX, BerkeleyX, UTx and many other universities. Topics include biology, business, chemistry, computer science, economics, finance, electronics, engineering, food and nutrition, history, humanities, law, literature, math, medicine, music, philosophy, physics, science, statistics and more. EdX is a non-profit online initiative created by founding partners Harvard and MIT.
More information about the course:
https://www.edx.org/course/mitx/mitx-14-73x-challenges-global-poverty-585
This is a course for those who are interested in the challenge posed by massive and persistent world poverty. This course attempts to answer questions about extreme poverty, the nature of human life when living with less than a dollar per day? Are the poor always hungry? How do we make schools work for poor citizens? How do we deal with the disease burden? Is microfinance invaluable or overrated? Without property rights, is life destined to be "nasty, brutish and short"? Should we leave economic development to the market? Should we leave economic development to non-governmental organizations (NGOs)? Does foreign aid help or hinder? Where is the best place to intervene? And many others. At the end of this course, you should have a good sense of the key questions asked by scholars interested in poverty today, and hopefully a few answers as well.
No prerequisites.
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