Saving the World +Youth's and Economists' Last 6 Chances

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Chapter 0 Index to other chapters 1 Massive Open Online Education 2 Cashless Banking 3 Mobilising Nurses as number 1 grassroots information networkers of 21st C - any nation that is finding healthcare costs spiraling will probably find this is the last gamechanger back to affordable and accessibility of quality healthcare for all -cases Bangladesh's Free Nursing College model emerged after 14 years of being the first nation to experiment with value of mobile phones in ending digital divides in world's poorest villages Currently the most exciting of Obama's 4 billion dollar program of stateswide experiments in community mobile is taking lace in the Clintons Arkansas and is on all the most economical aspects of telemedicine and mobilizing apps that share knowledge between states greatest medical experts and its grassroots rural medical service workers 4 Reforming professionals as win-win-win modellers across borderless planet -IF professions don't have the goodwill and Hippocratic honor to apply this to mapping system dynamics, who will? 5 Locally abundant clean energy, water and nutrition -to make a unstoppable start to replacing carbon and chemical chains with nature's green abundancy we urgently need to celebrate bottom-up and collaborative modeling as much as her evolutionary principles do 6 Freeing market channels to be job creating; and Mediating youth's greatest heroes to celebrate youth serving peace and community across global village  (1 2) world

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[chris macrae]

 

lessons from incident - world congress first week april 2013 wash dc

 

learnings from today's incident with VJ

1 we must try to keep offering mooc to everyone eg yunus abed sarah japan embassy ashir sim ....  anyone who has content millions of youth could train round to create jobs and co-produce millennium goals or start ending cultural conflicts instead of being used to fuel them by very bas mass media of which the bbc's lack of good news leadership is appalling

2 as well as trying to find spaces where they can interconnect - that is why if japan embasy ever holds another dinner i believe it should be on how mooc can restiore all pro-youth economic views including japans as essential to regional development, banagldesh's need to connect with asian gunts fatser than islamitrs or hasina closes down the country, sarahs green energy needs

3 other ways that entrepreneurial educators can contribute including gordon and kim from oz and new zealand, taddy-branson mandela from s.africa, the gangdhis for india

4 I believe talking about freeing the market of 12 minute modules that millions of youth can act on is the core idea- from that some will make dedicated 6 hour curriculum of their favorite guru while others will try an criss-cross all the most pro-youth content and

 

5 others will go into deep practical areas- eg what training curriculu moves free nursing colege on to the vision that the 21st most trusted grassroots information network needs to be nurses- only this curriculum can start to bridge all the cultural ars let alone turn around healthcare to become more economicalk instead of more costly everywhere- only this curriculu can ytesyt who ants to bring down degrees of seapartion on life critical information flows- if someone is a digital wizard but isnt prepared to help map how those making apps in medical areas can get into the same overall collaboration web then they may not be worth spending much time with

chris macrae Norman Macrae Foundation

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will yunus and millions of  youth ever be free to mooc saving the world with replicable global village solutions

 

one way to light fire under yunus diary is to show him the curriculum that duflo is transmitting to millions of youth on end poverty- read in conjunction with her odd book poor economics it is so far away from what his version would be that he should be ending relationships with partners who don't help him correct this asap

Calendar with readings

1. WEEK 1: Introduction

(a) Introduction I: What this class is about!

(b) Introduction II: What is a poverty Trap

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_ * Poor Economics: Chapter I AND pages 19-22 in Chapter 2

(c) Introduction III: Learning what works: the role of experiments

_ * EXTERNAL VIDEO TO WATCH IN ADVANCE: Esther Duflo’s TED

Talk "Social Experiments to fight poverty"

_ * Post and Discussion by Mead Over from Dani Rodrik’s blog on January

15, 2008 (“Jeff Sachs Vindicated”/ "Jeff Sachs not vindicated")

2. WEEK 2: FOOD

_ Food II: Is there a nutrition based poverty trap–The demand for food and

calories

– * Poor economics: Chapter 2: pages 22-28

– *The Indiana Jones of Economics, Part I, II, III (Freakonomics Blog post

by Robert Jensen on his work on Giffen goods).

_ Food III: Is there a nutrition based poverty trap–The hidden trap.

– * Poor economics: Chapter 2: Pages 28-40

3. WEEK 3: HEALTH

_ Health I: Delivering Healthcare, a Case Study from India NB: No lecture video

for this class: instead, watch the documentary film, and answer some questions.

– * Udaipur Case Study

– Film: The Name of the Disease (2006). Edited by Sumit Ghosh. Directed

by Abhijit Banerjee, Arundhati Banerjee and Bappa Sen.

_ Health II: Low Hanging fruit: Understanding health care behavior in developing

countries?

– * Poor Economics: Chapter 3

4. WEEK 4:EDUCATION

_ Education I: Setting the stage

– * Easterly, William (2002), “Educated for What?”, Chapter 4 in The Elusive

Quest for Growth: Economists’ Adventures and Misadventures in the

Tropics, MIT Press

– * Case, Anne, “The Primacy of Education”, Chapter 18 in Understanding

Poverty

_ Education II: How to Make Schools Work for the Poor: Pratham’s experience

– * Banerjee, Abhijit, Shawn Cole, Esther Duflo and Leigh Linden (2007),

“Remedying Education: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments in

India,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 122(3), pp 1235-64.

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_ Education III: Beyond Supply and Demand wars...

– * Poor Economics: Chapter 4

5. WEEK 5: FAMILY

_ Family I: What drives Fertility decisions?

– *Poor economics: Chapter 5. Pages 103-123

_ Family II: Household model and discrimination against girls

– * Poor Economics: Chapter 5. pages 123-129

– * Amartya Sen "100 million missing women" New York Review of Books

6. WEEK 6: Risk and Insurance

_ Risk and Insurance I

– * Besley, Timothy, “Nonmarket Institutions for Credit and Risk Sharing in

Low Income Countries,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 9, pp 115-127.

_ Risk and Insurance II

– * Poor Econonomics: Chapter 6

7. WEEK 7: CREDIT

_ Credit I: The not so simple economics of lending to the poor [lecture 17]

– * Poor Economics: Chapter 7 Pages 157-168

_ Credit II: peril and promises of microfinance [lecture 19]

– Newpaper articles on microcredit : Financial Times ("Microcredit is not

the ennemy")-The economist ("Big Troubles for Microfinance" -New York

times Yunus Oped "Sacrificing Microcredit for Megaprofits")

_ *Poor economics: Chapter 7 Pages 168-180

– Banerjee, Abhijit, Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster and Cynthia Kinnan

(2009), “The Miracle of Microfinance? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation,”

working paper, MIT.

8. WEEK 8: SAVINGS:

_ Savings I

– *Poor economics: Chapter 8

_ Savings II

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9. WEEK 9: THE POOR AND THEIR BUSINESSES

_ The poor and their businesses

– *Poor economics: Chapter 9

10. WEEK 10: INSTITUTIONS

_ Institutions

_ Policy, politics

– * Poor economics: chapter 10

11. WEEK 11: CONCLUSION

_ In place of a sweeping conclusion

– * Poor economics, conclusion

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