Required Readings

Reading comprehension questions are posted on gradescope and must be submitted before each class meeting.

February 9: What Is Poverty?

• Our World in Data: The history of the end of poverty has just begun
• Divergence, Big Time

February 11: Geography

• The Geography of Poverty and Wealth

February 16, 18: The African Slave Trades

• Shackled to the Past: The Causes and Consequences of Africa’s Slave Trades

February 23, 25: Colonialism

• The Importance of History for Economic Development