Consumption (Class #1)

HOMEWORK DUE TODAY

1. Read Chapters 1 and 2 in Poor Economics (required)

2. Videos 1-5 (below): Will deepen your understanding of Chapter 2, but not required (optional).

3. Readings 1-6 (below): Will deepen your understanding of Chapter 2, but not required (optional).

ACTIVITIES

Question of the Day: Does a nutrition based poverty trap exist in Sub-Saharan Africa?

1. Discussion with Hopkins

2. Work on social enterprise project with Smith

RESOURCES

Poor Economics Website

1. Data set: This 18-country data set may give you evidence to support your ideas.

2. Studies: These consumption studies may help you prepare too.

Videos

1. Introduction

2. What is a poverty trap?

3. Social Experiments (Why and How?)

4. Is there a nutrition based poverty trap?

5. Nutrition: The hidden traps

Readings

1. Jeff Sachs Vindicated

2. Jeff Sachs Not Vindicated

3. George Clooney Answers Your Questions About Malaria

4. Droughts, Floods and Food

5. The Indiana Jones of Economics (Part I, Part II, Part III)