Schedule of Topics

February 6: What Is Poverty?

February 8: Geography

February 13, 15: The African Slave Trades

February 20, 22: The Long-Run Impacts of Colonialism

February 27: The Big Push

March 1: Post-Independence Leaders

March 6, 8: Import Substituting Industrialization

March 13: Investments in Agriculture and Structural Transformation

March 15: Structural Adjustment Policies

April 3, 5: Firm Productivity

April 10, 12: Youth Unemployment

April 17, 19: Self-Employment and Microfinance

April 24, 26: Agricultural Productivity

May 1, 3: Village Economies and Poverty Traps

May 8, 10: The Demand for Sustainability: A Case Study of Clean Cookstoves