Lecture Slides in Development Economics

An archived graduate-level course originally taught in 2021, with slides and video from 25 lectures. "Topics include human capital (education and health); labor markets; credit markets; land markets; firms; and the role of the public sector."

This page collects PDF-format slide shows from presentations given by Rodrik. The slides have enough text to be read as self-contained lessons.

Hosted by the University of Oxford, Our World in Data explains global issues using interactive graphs. This page on their site has slide presentations on five topics including extreme poverty and population growth. They can either be downloaded in Powerpoint format, or viewed online: in the latter case, the included graphs are fully interactive, allowing the reader to jump back and forth along a timeline, for example.

Lecture slides, extensive reading list, syllabus and exams from a Spring 2016 course that "examines alternative conceptions and theoretical underpinnings of sustainable development."

Twelve video lectures and accompanying slides, plus detailed reading list and problem sets from the first half of a 2013 undergraduate course. Topics include "migration, modernization, and technological change; static and dynamic models of political economy; the dynamics of income distribution and institutional change; firm structure in developing countries; development, transparency, and functioning of financial markets; privatization; and banks and credit market institutions in emerging markets." The videos can be downloaded from the Internet Archive.

PowerPoint presentation on economic theories of development.

From an archived graduate-level course taught in 2002, this MIT OpenCourseWare site includes PDF-format lecture slides, a reading list and syllabus.