Course overview
This is an advanced postgraduate course in development economics. This course aims to provide students with an economic understanding of the origins of uneven patterns of economic development, as well as an understanding of policies that can be applied in developing countries and how we can measure their effectiveness. Topics may include productivity effects of health, private and social returns to education, child labour, public finance, firms and contracts, and the markets for land, credit and savings.
Course learning outcomes
- Apply selected economic models relating to the process of economic development and to activities within low-and middle-income countries
- Identify and interpret use of econometric analysis and other empirical tools to address issues in economic development
- Develop the capacity to read and understand the journal literature in the area of economic development and to present these ideas to an audience