Required Readings

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

February 9, 11: What Is Poverty?

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

February 16: Geography

• The Geography of Poverty and Wealth

February 18, 25, March 2: The African Slave Trades

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

March 4, 9: Colonialism

• The Importance of History for Economic Development

March 11, 16: The Big Push

• The Fall and Rise of Development Economics

March 18: Industrial Policy

• Industrial Policy, Asian Miracle Style
• Manufacturing revolutions: The role of industrial policy in South Korea’s industrialisation