Lecture 1: Introduction to Development Economics | Development Economics | Economics | MIT OpenCourseWare

Poverty, Inequality, and Development - SlideServe

💡 At the Bay of Bengal Conversation 2025, Verité Research Executive Director, Dr Nishan de Mel, reflects on how economics has helped erode moral and value concerns – and what it would take to put human flourishing back at the centre. In this short talk he argues that: 🔴 self-interest should be treated like a constraint to design around, not a virtue to celebrate 🔴 GDP is only a means, not the measure of a good society 🔴 metrics of progress must include health, education, poverty and inequali

Understanding Poverty: Definition, Causes, and Measurement