Tag: economics

A Look at Paul Collier’s Routes out of Poverty

Posted by Emily Drewry

In case you missed it, economic expert Paul Collier recently came to Northwestern to deliver a speech entitled “Routes out of Poverty: What are the Expressways”. Sponsored by the Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies and the Center for Global Engagement Global Development Series, and co-sponsored by One Book One Northwestern, Kellogg Global Programs,

More than Good Intentions: How a New Economics is Helping to Solve Global Poverty – Dr. Dean Karlan, Yale University, Innovations for Poverty Action

Posted by Laura Ruch

Hundreds of thousands of programs exist throughout the world targeted toward solving some piece of the global poverty puzzle. How can we evaluate an individual program, and what makes some programs more effective than others? Dr. Dean Karlan, professor of economics at Yale University, spoke on the Northwestern University Campus at the Buffet Center for