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Week 1: Course introduction; Objectives, themes and expectations
Film Screening: Life and Debt
• Excerpt of the film on web site
Week 2: Understanding development and underdevelopment
Measuring economic growth and development
• (C&D, ch.1&2)
• World Development Report 1990, Ch.2, p. 24-30.
Week 3: Development in historical perspectives
• (C&D, ch3)
Week 4: QUIZ
Theories of economic development and growth: Classical and neoclassical and theories
• (C&D, ch.4)
Week 5: Developmentalist and heterodox theories of economic development
• (C&D, ch. 5&6)
Week 6: Endogenous growth theories
• (C&D, ch.8)
Midterm Exam Review
Week 7: MIDTERM EXAM
Discussion on Term Papers and Selection of Topics I
Week 8: Midterm Exam Answers: Review
Neoliberalism and the role of the state
• (C&D, ch. 7)
• D. Rodrik, “After Neoliberalism, What?” in New Rules for Global Finance, After Neoliberalism: Economic Policies that Work for the Poor, 2002, http://www.new-rules.org/afterneoliberalism.htm.
Week 9: The structural transformation: industrial development
• (C&D, ch.9&10)
Discussion on Term Papers and Selection of Topics II
Week 10: The structural transformation: agricultural development
• (C&D, ch.11)
• Akder, A. Halis. 2007. “Policy formation in the process of implementing agricultural reform in Turkey”, International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology, Vol. 6, Nos. 4/5, 514-32.
Week 11: QUIZ
Population, education and human capital
• (C&D, ch.12)
Week 12: Macroeconomics of development and the debt problem
• (C&D, ch.15&16)
Week 13: International institutional linkages
• (C&D, ch.17)
Final Exam Review
Week 14: In-class presentations
Course Review and Reflections
TERM PAPERS DUE
Finals Week: FINAL EXAM |