Education and E-Learning
Announcement: IDEAS Calendar of Virtual Webinars in Development
IDEAS is hosting a calendar of all the webinars they can find related to development. Check back often if you have some time and want to learn something new!
Read MoreOnline learning: “Using Big Data to Solve Economic and Social Problems”
This online course, taught by Raj Chetty, discusses using big data to solve economic problems. It’s targeted at someone without a background in economics or statistics, and is offered through Opportunity Insights in collaboration with Harvard University
Read MoreOnline Course: Development Economics
This course in Development Economics from Marginal Revolution surveys most of the major topics in development, including the following: Geography and Development; Food and Agricultural Productivity; Water Economics; Economic Growth; Bottlenecks, Linkages and Intermediate Goods; Productivity of Firms; Trade; Property Rights; Corruption; Foreign Aid; Finance, Growth, and the Poor; Poverty and Behavior; Health; Education; Politics, Democracy, and War; Migration; and Population and Environment.
You can take the whole course, or just watch the lectures that interest you.
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