Microeconomics | The Last 30 Years and the Next 30
Channel: UNU-WIDER
Date: 2015-11-30

In this video Alain de Janvry, University of California, Berkeley, discusses the last 30 years and the next 30 of development from the perspective of microeconomics. Despite rapid economic growth, poverty still remains high in many parts of the world. Microeconomics brings in reason to include behavior in policy analysis – in order to design effective policies we need to understand why people do what they do.

0:10 What have we learned over the last 30 years?
1:12 What is the role of microeconomics in development?
2:37 How will development economics research change over the next 30 years?

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