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.

• Getting started on Dissertation

• John Cochrane’s tips for writing a dissertation

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.