Development economics is truly a meta-field of economics, covering issues and methods relevant to low- and middle-income countries' economic features and challenges. These span analysis and policy across macro and micro domains and include growth, fiscal and monetary issues, inequality and poverty, trade, innovation, human development, and sustainability. The course offers an advanced exposure to development-economic models and issues, with a special attention to those that are an essential part of the development-practitioner's toolbox and underpin policy interventions. Development is also a practice, with its record of successes and failures; the course will blend in the actual experience of practitioners, introduce the literature on assessing aid, discuss some spectacular cases of success and failure, and ask students to hone diagnostic and policy-advisory skills on their chosen country cases.
This course is for 2nd year MIA and MPP students only.
