Llicenciatura en Economia (3322)
Llicenciatura en Administració i Direcció d'Empreses (3323)

Desenvolupament Econòmic(11854) 

This course provides an introduction to some of the most important issues in economic development examining all three aspects of economic research: theory, evidence and policy.

Tema 1

Economic development in 1997.

Temes 2, 3 i 4

Poverty.

Temes 5 i 6

Population Growth.

Temes 7 i 8

Technological Growth.

Temes 9 i 10

Trade Policy, Industrialization and Development.

Temes 11 i 12

External Debt and Structural Adjustment Programmes.

Temes 13 i 14

The Old Socialist Economies.

Temes 15 i 16

Development Case Studies: Brasil, Mexico, and Chile.

Temes 17 i 18

Development Case Studies: India and Nigeria.

Temes 19 i 20

Development Case Studies: South Korea and Indonesia.

Bibliografia

There is no textbook for the course. Part of the reading list will consist of selected articles or documents and will be given at the start of each part of the course.

However, most of the subjects dealt with in the first part of the course are covered in:

Handbook of Development Economics, eds. Jere Behrman and T. N. Srinivasan. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1995. Volume 3.

For the development case studies of the last three weeks the reference book will be:

LITTLE, I. M. et al. Boom, crisis, and adjustment: the macroeconomic experience of developing countries. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.