Development Economics (BEE3052)
University of Exeter (UoEX)
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Corruption
Types of corruption
factors that facilitate corruption
effects of corruption on growth and broader development
political lending in Pakistan
Summary statistics
Reinikka and svensson 2004
schools and education in Uganda
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Topics in microeconomics of development
PopularHealth and education
- motivation
- world development report 2004
- clinical interactions
- remedying education
- peer effects, teacher incentives and impact of tracking
- mosquito/bed nets study

Gender inequality
- intro
- education and health
- employment
- gender based violence
- early marriage and violence in India
- Power within marriage
- freedom of choice
- reasons for gender gap- empowerment leading to economic development
- women as decision makers
- policies
- role of institutions and...
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Lecture notes Development Economics (BEE3052) - Health
This document provides in depth notes for the health chapter of BEE3052 Development Economics. It explains all content and also key teachings from the papers studied on the reading list.
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Early interventions, Health and Education
Intro to Health 
Early-life malaria exposure and adult outcomes
Eradication of malaria in Sri Lanka and Paraguay - Lucas 2010
Deworming - Baird et al 2006
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Microfinance and Digital money
Intro to topic
Social capital 
Microfinance 
Solving adverse selection
Solving moral hazard
Solving enforcement - Beasley-Coate
Does Microfinance work?
Joint liability
Group lending
Digital money
M-Pesa
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Credit Markets in Developing Countries
Credit in Nepal - Besley et al 2001
The theory
Stylized facts
Banerjee and Duflo
Macro-level evidence of transaction costs
Enforcement problems
Moral Hazards
Possible policies
Rajan and Zingales 1998
Other issues with credit
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Persistent poverty, Market Failure, Coordination and Poverty Traps
Main points:

persistence of poverty
Evidence of persistence of poverty
Growth theory - poverty traps
Kremer's complementarity model
Behavioural Traps
New technologies, increasing returns 
Status Quo bias
Lecture notes
Role of institutions
Introduction to development economics
Part 1 - the facts
World bank development report
Banerjee and Duflo 2007 (in great detail)

Part 2- Determinism and History
Institutions and Scope for action, Under the thumb of history? Banerjee and Duflo (2013) 
Economic determinism
Cultural determinism
No determinism
Random events matter
Acemoglu – Johnson – Robinson (2001, 2002)
García – Jiménez – Robinson – Torvik 
McCloskey’s Ethics, Talk and Ideas