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COURSE PLAN
Week 1 Introduction and an overview of development economics
Week 2 Measuring economic growth and development;
Week 3 A historical background to “development and growth”
Week 4 Theories of economic development and growth: Classical and neoclassical theories
Week 5 Theories of economic development and growth: Marxian and Dependency Theories
Week 6 Theories of economic development and growth: Structuralist macroeconomics; and the institutionalist school
Week 7 The market mechanism versus the role of the developmental state
Week 8 The structural transformation: The industrialization imperative and policies
Week 9 The structural transformation: Agricultural transformation and the environment
Week 10 Macroeconomics of Development I: International trade, foreign capital flows and the balance of payments problem Week 11 Macroeconomics of development, international trade, foreign capital flows and the balance of payments problem I
Week 12 Macroeconomics of Development II: Stabilization, Structural Adjustment and Austerity; International institutional linkages: the IMF, the World Bank, and Foreign Aid
Week 13 Problems of Sustainability: Ecological and Social
Week 14 A Review of Development Economics: Perspectives for the Future |