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4515: Development Economics ( efterår 2010 - 10 ECTS )

Rammer for udbud

  • Uddannelsessprog: engelsk (eller dansk)
  • Niveau: Elective BSc and MSc course
  • Semester/kvarter: Variable
  • Timer per uge: 4 hours per week for 12 weeks
  • Deltagerbegrænsning: None
  • Undervisningssted: Århus
  • Hovedområde: Det Samfundsvidenskabelige Fakultet
  • Udbud ID: 24987

Formål

The objectives are that the students after having participated in the course should be able to:

  • Describe the main development discussions and relate these discussions to standard theory. (The areas covered will be specified in the teaching notes to the course).
  • Describe, analyse and reflect on the development problem chosen based on the new empirical research in the curriculum. Be able to apply the models and techniques of the models presented.
  • Apply the standard tools of cost-benefit analysis on an unknown problem at the level of a participant (as the economist) in a cost-benefit team by discussing the consequences of the key choices in the analysis.

 

Indhold

The course has three main goals: (1) Introduce the main discussions of the problems of development. (2) Discuss some main development problem based on a set of new papers chosen in the curriculum at the level of an actual participant in the research process. (3) To teach the student the basic tech­niques of cost benefit analysis as is actually used.


The course has variable content

Three themes will be covered:

Theme 1: The macro effectiveness development discussion, based on recent research project of MP.

Theme 2: The Africa Problem: Africa is the poorest continent, from 1970-95 the
continent had a falling GDP per capita, but the development has turned upward since
1995. Based on a research plans of MP

Theme 3: Cost-benefit at the practitioner's level. Meant for students who will actually work in LDCs, who are typically analyzing projects.

Faglige forudsætninger

2525: Growth and International Trade

Underviser

Martin Paldam

 

Undervisnings- og arbejdsform

Lectures

 

 


 

Litteratur

Doucouligos, H., Paldam, M., 2005. Aid effectiveness on Growth. A meta study. European Journal of Political Economy, forthcoming. 28 p

Doucouligos, H., Paldam, M., 2005. The aid effectiveness literature. The sad results of 40 years of research. P.t. Working paper, 26 p

 

Easterly, W., Levine, R., 1997. Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions.
Quarterly Journal of Economics 112, 1203-50. 47 pp

Nunn, N., 2008. The Long-Term Effects of Africa's Slave Trades. Quarterly Journal of
Economics 123, 139-176. 37 p

Beny, L.N., Cook, L.D.. 2009. Metals or Management? Explaining Africa's Recent
Economic Growth Performance. American Economic Review 99, 268-74. 6 pp

Arbache. J.S. , John Page, J. 2010. How Fragile Is Africa's Recent Growth? Journal of
African Economies 19, 1-24. 23 pp

Gallup, J.L., Sachs, J.D., Mellinger, A.D. 1999. Geography and Economic Development.
International Regional Science Review 22, 176-232. 56 pp

Add. papers on Africa, max. 100 pp

 

Curry, S., Weiss, J., 2000. Project anlysis in developing countries. 2dn ed. Palgrave,
London 355 pp


Total pp 558 (+ 100) pages

Studieordning og bedømmelse

Bacheloruddannelsen i økonomi

  • Skriftlig, bedømt efter 7-skala med intern censur

Grundfaget i erhvervsøkonomi

  • Skriftlig, bedømt efter 7-skala med intern censur


Written exam, 4 hours

EXAMINATION AIDS ALLOWED: Only dictionary, no electronic dictionaries are allowed.