Google.org Course (Week 2): Poverty at the Personal Level (Part 1)

19 Sep 2007



(38 min)

Introduction: Joshua Cohen
Lecture: Seema Jayachandran

1. How many people live below US$1 a day?
2. Case study 1: how cell phones help fishermen in Kerala, Southern India. (Cells are easy to use. Cost covering is within 2 months)
3. Data: Life expectancy and GDP, and Child mortality (under age 5)
4. Case study 2: Anemia (low hemoglobin) in Indonesia (simply adding iron into their meal?)