发展经济学是经济学分支之一，主要研究对象为贫困落后的农业国家或发展中国家如何实现工业化，摆脱贫困、走向富裕的过程。微型金融(以小额信贷为主体)革命使得全世界超过两亿的贫困人口无需通过抵押的方式获得小额贷款。提供值得信赖、价格合理的金融服务能够对经济和社会产生巨大影响。这一理念拓展了世界各国政策制定者、社会活动家、银行家以及研究者的想象力。

Development economics is one of the branches of economics. The main research object is how poor and backward agricultural countries or developing countries realize industrialization, get rid of poverty and become rich. The revolution in microfinance has allowed more than 200 million poor people around the world to obtain microloans without collateral. Providing trustworthy, affordable financial services can have a huge impact on economies and societies. This idea has captured the imagination of policymakers, activists, bankers and researchers around the world.

本课程将讨论发展经济学领域的重要问题：为什么有些国家如此富有，而大多数国家却如此贫穷，教育和卫生的发展对经济发展重要吗，高人口增长是否有利于经济繁荣，可以放宽信贷，等等。在解决这些问题的同时，课程还会引入其他*新的经济学观点，从辩证和政策影响角度进行实证分析。

This course will discuss important questions in the field of development economics: why some countries are so rich while most are so poor, does the development of education and health matter for economic development, is high population growth conducive to economic prosperity, can credit be made easier, and so on. In addition to addressing these issues, the course will introduce other recent economic perspectives and provide empirical analysis from the perspective of dialectic and policy impact.

高中生、大学生

经济、金融专业等商科专业的学生；对经济、经济、金融专业等商科专业感兴趣的学生。

学生需要具备一定的理科能力，微积分、数学分析、矩阵代数、概*、统计、线性代数、数学建模等。

High school and college students

Business majors such as economics and finance; Students interested in business majors such as economics, economics, and finance.

Students are required to have certain science skills, calculus, mathematical analysis, matrix algebra, probability, statistics, linear algebra, mathematical modeling, etc.

剑桥大学（University of Cambridge；勋衔：Cantab），是一所世界**的公立研究型大学，采用书院联邦制，坐落于英国剑桥。其与牛津大学并称为牛剑，与牛津大学、伦敦大学学院、帝国理工学院、伦敦政治经济学院同属“G5超*精英大学”。剑桥大学是英语世界中第二古老的大学，前身是一个于1209年成立的学者协会。

八百多年的校史汇聚了牛顿、开尔文、麦克斯韦、玻尔、玻恩、狄拉克、奥本海默、霍金、达尔文、沃森、克里克、马尔萨斯、马歇尔、凯恩斯、图灵、怀尔斯、华罗庚等科学巨匠，弥尔顿、拜伦、丁尼生、培根、罗素、维特根斯坦等文哲大师，克伦威尔、尼赫鲁、李光耀等政治人物以及罗伯特·沃波尔（*任）在内的15位英国*相。截止2019年10月，共有120位诺贝尔奖得主（世界第二）、11位菲尔兹奖得主（世界第六）、7位图灵奖得主（世界第八）曾在此学习或工作。

剑桥大学在众多领域拥有崇高的学术地位及广泛的影响力，被公认为当今世界***的高等教育机构之一。剑桥大学是英国罗素大学集团、金三角*及剑桥大学医疗伙伴联盟的一员，衍育了科技聚集地“硅沼(Silicon Fen)”。学校共设八座文理博物馆，并有馆藏逾1500万册的图书馆系统及全球*古老的出版社——剑桥大学出版社。

2019-20年度，剑桥大学位居泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名世界第3、QS世界大学排名世界第7、US News世界大学排名世界第9、世界大学学术排名世界第3，泰晤士高等教育世界大学声誉排名世界第4。

University of Cambridge (University of Cambridge; Honours: Cantab) is one of the world's leading public research universities, based in Cambridge, England, with a collegiate system. It is also known as Oxbridge with the University of Oxford, and is one of the "G5 super elite universities" along with the University of Oxford, University College London, Imperial College London and the London School of Economics and Political Science. The University of Cambridge is the second oldest university in the English-speaking world, having grown out of a society of scholars founded in 1209.

The 800-year history of the university has brought together such scientific masters as Newton, Kelvin, Maxwell, Bohr, Born, Dirac, Oppenheimer, Hawking, Darwin, Watson, Crick, Malthus, Marshall, Keynes, Turing, Wiles, Hua Luogen, Milton, Byron, Tennyson, Bacon, Russell, Wittgenstein, and other literary and philosophical masters. Political figures such as Cromwell, Nehru, Lee Kuan Yew and 15 British Prime ministers, including Robert Walpole (the first). As of October 2019, 120 Nobel Prize winners (second in the world), 11 Fields Medal winners (sixth in the world), and 7 Turing Award winners (eighth in the world) have studied or worked here.

The University of Cambridge has a high academic status and extensive influence in many fields, and is recognized as one of the top higher education institutions in the world today. The University of Cambridge is a member of the UK Russell Group of Universities, the Golden Triangle and the Cambridge University Medical Partnership Alliance, and has developed a science and technology gathering place "Silicon Fen". The university is home to eight liberal arts museums, a library system with a collection of more than 15 million volumes and the world's oldest publishing house, Cambridge University Press.

In 2019-20, the University of Cambridge was ranked 3rd in the world by The Times Higher Education World University Rankings, 7th in the world by QS World University Rankings, 9th in the world by US News World University Rankings, 3rd in the world Academic Rankings and 4th in the world by The Times Higher Education World University Reputation Rankings.