Resources for Dissertation

• This is an eclectic collection of paper that may help you in zeroing in on a topic in Economics Development for your undergraduate dissertation at Cambridge.

My Lecture Course Material

• Microfinance course at Cambridge | Reading List |
• Economic Development Course at LSE Summer School | Reading List | Lecture Notes | Lecture Slides |

Useful Links and Paper Collections

• Tim Besley | Debraj Ray | Maitreesh Ghatak | Abhijit Banerjee |
  Jonathan Morduch | Daron Acemoglu | Sanjeev Goyal |

Interesting Blogs

• Ideas for India | Dani Rodrik | Mankiw | Blattman |

Surveys

• Natural Resource by Van Der Ploeg
• Development by Debraj Ray
• Growth by Banerjee & Duflo
• Corruption by Aidt
• Microfinance by Armendiaz and Morduch

Interesting Papers

• Development Banking by Beatriz Armendariz de Aghion.
• Is free trade passe? by Paul R. Krugman
• Property Rights and Economic Development by Tim Besley and Maitreesh Ghatak
• Land Reform and Agricultural Productivity in India by Maitreesh Ghatak and Sanchari Roy
• The Economic Lives of the Poor by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
• The Effect of Monetary and Exchange Rate Policies on Development by Yeyati & Sturzenegger
• Assortative Matching
  
• Insurance against Poverty edited by Stefan Dercon