Reading list
Ray, Debraj: Development Economics, 1998. Princeton University Press, New Jersey. Ch. 1-8, 10, 16-17.
Banerjee, A. V., R. Bénabou and D. Mookherjee: Understanding poverty, 2006. Oxford university press. ISBN: 0-19-530520-5. Ch. 1-8, 11,12 and 15.
Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo: "The Economic Lives of the Poor" in Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2007.
Deaton, Angus: "Is World Poverty Falling?" Finance and Development 39, no. 2 (June 2002).
Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson: "Unbundling Institutions" in Journal of Political Economy, 2005, vol. 113, no. 5.
Simeon Djankov, Edward Glaeser, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, and Andrei Shleifer: "The New Comparative Economics" in Journal of Comparative Economics 31 (2003) 595-619.