Governance, Institutions, and Political Economy 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: Political Economy and Economic Development from EdX
This MIT online course in political economy and development taught by field superstars Abhijit Banerjee and Ben Olken starts on June 2, so hurry and check it out!
Read MoreOnline learning (en Français) “Programmation et Politiques Financières, Deuxième Partie : Conception d’un Programme
This online course from the IMF on Edx focuses on the tools to help you design data-driven macroeconomic and financial policy. It’s the second in a two-part course.
Read MoreOnline learning (en Français) “Programmation et Politiques Financières, Première Partie: Analyse des Comptes Macroéconomiques”
This online course from the IMF on Edx focuses on the tools to help you respond to questions about the health of the macroeconomy and how a cognizance of political economy can help bring the economy to a healthier status. In French.
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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