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Foundations of Development Policy

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States14.74
Free, no sign-up neededSpring 2009English
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This course explores the foundations of policy making in developing countries. The goal is to spell out various policy options and to quantify the trade-offs between them. We will study the different facets of human development: education, health, gender, the family, land relations, risk, informal and formal norms and institutions. This is an empirical class. For each topic, we will study several concrete examples chosen from around the world.

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