Development Economics
Course ID:
Semester: 2nd
Year of Study: 1st Year
Category: Economics Elective
For Erasmus Students: Όχι
Learning Outcomes
On satisfying the requirements for this course, students will be able to:
- critically evaluate economic problems of developing countries.
- effectively participate in the contemporary policy debate on development priorities and policy reforms in developing countries.
- synthesize and explain the current state of research and thought in the field of development economics.
- analyze a development strategy within the context of current theory and empirical work.
- evaluate the effectiveness of a development program using econometric tools.
- produce an independent research paper tackling the pressing issues in development through synthesizing the causal estimation techniques, data from developing countries and economic reasoning.
Course Contents
- Economic Development: Concepts & Measures
- Economic Growth
- Industrialization & Structural Transformation
- Inequality & Poverty Measures
- Poverty, Inequality & Development
- Population/Fertility
- Education/Child Labor
- Urbanization & Migration
- Debt, Financial Crises & IMF Lending Instruments
- Foreign Finance, Investment & Aid
Teaching Activities
Lectures (3 hours/week)
Teaching Organization
|
Activity |
Semester workload |
| Lectures |
13X3 =39 hours |
| Individual Work |
111 hours |
| Total number of hours for the Course (25 hours of work-load per ECTS credit) |
150 hours (total student work-load) |
Assessment
- Final exam: 60%
- Individual assignments (2): 40%
There will be two individual assignments, so each assignment will be worth 20% of the overall grade. Assignment 1 will be in the form of an individual data exercise, while Assignment 2 will be a short research paper on a selected country/group of countries. Students are required to present their findings.
The evaluation criteria are described in the Course Syllabus, which is posted on the platform eclass.upatras.gr.
Use of ICT
Use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) (e.g. power point) in teaching. The lectures for each chapter are uploaded on the e-class platform in the form of ppt files, which the enrolled students can freely download.
Teaching Hours: 3
ECTS Credits: 6
Teaching Credits:
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Language: Ελληνική
Teaching Method: Πρόσωπο με πρόσωπο
General Competences: Αναζήτηση, ανάλυση και σύνθεση δεδομένων και πληροφοριών, με τη χρήση και των απαραίτητων τεχνολογιών, Προσαρμογή σε νέες καταστάσεις, Λήψη αποφάσεων, Αυτόνομη εργασία, Εργασία σε διεθνές περιβάλλον, Παράγωγή νέων ερευνητικών ιδεών, Σεβασμός στη διαφορετικότητα και στην πολυπολιτισμικότητα, Προαγωγή της ελεύθερης, δημιουργικής και επαγωγικής σκέψης
Γνωστικό Αντικείμενο: Macroeconomics
Οργανική Μονάδα / Εργαστήριο:
E-mail: egoulas@upatras.gr
Τηλέφωνο: +30 2610 962597
Ώρες γραφείου: Wed 12.00 - 14.00 Thu 13.00 - 14.00
eclass URL: e-class
– Suggested bibliography:
- Ray, Debraj, Development Economics. Princeton, 1998.
- Todaro, Michael P. and Stephen C. Smith, Economic Development. 12th Edition, Pearson, 2015.
- Thirlwall, Anthony P., and Penélope Pacheco-López, Economics of Development: Theory and Evidence. Palgrave, 2017.
- Söderbom, Måns, et al. Empirical Development Economics. Routledge, 2014.
- Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet, Development Economics: Theory and Practice, Routledge, 2016.
