Reading list
Ray, Debraj: Development Economics, 1998. Princeton University Press. ISBN: 0-691-01706-9. Ch. 1-4, 6-8, 10, 16.
Banerjee, A. V., R. Bénabou and D. Mookherjee: Understanding poverty, 2006. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 0-19-530520-5. Ch. 2-5, 8 and 12.
Banerjee, Abhijit V. and Ester Duflo: The Economic Lives of the Poor, 2007. Journal of Economic Perspectives. 21(1), pp. 141-167.
Banerjee, Abhijit V. and Esther Duflo: The Experimental Approach to Development Economics, 2009. Annual Review of Economics. 1(1), pp.151-178.
Easterly, William: Can the West Save Africa?, 2009. Journal of Economic Literature. 47(2), pp. 373-447.
Voluntary reading
Sen, Amartya: Development as Freedom, 1999. Oxford University Press.
Banerjee, Abhijit V. and Esther Duflo: Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty, 2011. Public Affairs, New York.
Easterly, William: The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics, 2001. MIT Press.
Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson: Institutions as a Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth, 2005. Handbook of Economic Growth. Volume 1, Part 1, pp. 385-472 .