Economic Development and Investment

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This lecture discusses the targets and progress towards poverty reduction, the definition of extreme poverty, and the challenges in achieving the Sustainable Development Goal of eliminating poverty by 2030. It also covers growth rate calculations, the importance of private investment in increasing productivity, factors hindering economic development such as education, governance, and foreign aid, and the trade-offs involved in distributing aid directly to populations or through governmental institutions.

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Macroeconomics: Development economics

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