Development Economics

Aim

After completion of the course the students should be able to: - describe the problems of less developed countries and developing countries; - cultivate the analytical and critical skills relevant to economic development in developing countries; - access, process and interpret a variety of data related to poverty, growth, trade, climate change, remittances and etc. - understand the role international organization including World Bank, United Nation, UNFCC and WTO for development issues. - thinking about contemporary policy issues in the line of sustainable development in developing countries.

Content

This course explores analytical and policy issues related to poverty reduction and sustainable development. The purpose is to provide an understanding of the findings and recommendations of recent and sometimes technical economic analyses related to the growth and poverty implications of development policies, aid reforms and international agreements. After a discussion of development, poverty and an introduction of some basic economic relationships, the course turns to individual policy areas. In addition, the course covers how to measure and evaluate the efficiency of foreign aid and specific policies for global climate change.

The course provides an selected issues in economic development including theory, evidence and policy. The course will concern on the related themes of poverty, poverty measure, growth, Trade and climate change. The course discusses the definition of poverty and analyzing the growth performance in different countries. The course will then analyse global climate change: theory and application in different countries and the role of international institution. The course will discuss the recent literature and analytical methods used for examining contemporary issues of economic development including aid efficiency, micro finance, women empowerment, industrialization, migration, remittances and etc.