READING SCHEDULE

Session 1 - July 17

Read the Introduction and Chapter 1: Think Again, Again. You can print the discussion notes in advance, found here.

Session 2 - July 31

Theme: Hunger and Health

Read in advance: Chapter 2 “A Billion Hungry People?” and Chapter 3 “Low Hanging Fruit for Better (Global) Health” You can print the discussion notes in advance, found here.

Session 3 - August 14

Theme: Education and Population

Read in advance: Chapter 4 “Top of the Class” and Chapter 5 “Pak Sudarno's Big Family” You can print the discussion notes in advance, found here.

Session 4 - August 28

No meeting

Session 4 - September 11

ADDED: Discuss summary of Chapters 1-5: commonalities between access to (a) nutrition, (b) health care and preventative interventions, and (c) education

Theme: Risk, Insurance, and Credit

Read in advance: Chapter 6 “Barefoot Hedge-Fund Managers” You can print the discussion notes in advance, found here.

Session 5 - September 25

Theme: Entrepreneurship, Savings, and Policy

Read in advance: Chapter 7 “The Men from Kabul and the Eunuchs of India: The (Not So) Simple Economics of Lending to the Poor” and Chapter 8 “Saving Brick By Brick” You can print the discussion notes in advance, found here.

Session 6 - October 2

Theme: Entrepreneurship, Savings, and Policy

Read in advance: Chapter 9 “Reluctant Entrepreneurs” and Chapter 10 “Policies, Politics,” found here.

Session 7 - October 16

Theme: Wrapping Up

Read in advance: In Place of a Sweeping Conclusion