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Running?
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Yes, numbers permitting
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Module leader
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Eugenio Proto
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Context
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See your degree course regulations and pages 9-12 of Choosing Your Second- and Third-Year Courses and Modules in Economics 2007-08. Students registered on non-Economics degree courses, and visiting students, should obtain the module leader's permission.
Pre-requisites: any first year module in economics to include at least one of EC106, EC107,EC108, EC109; or EC204
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Teaching format
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2 hours per week for 10 weeks, comprising 20 lectures, plus 4 seminars
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Assessment methods
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Assessed work will contribute 20% of the mark and end of year examination(s) will contribute 80% of the mark.
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Academic aims
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The module aims to introduce students to the problems and features of developing economies, and it is based on the modern analytical quantitative approach adopted by the main international development institutions, with an emphasis on the most recent advances in the field.
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Learning objectives
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By the end of the module students will have extended their core skills in economic analysis and quantitative methods and will be able to apply this skill in the analysis of problems typical of a developing and less developed economy. They will also have learned to search for relevant literature to approach this information critically and to address key questions on development from an economic perspective by writing essays.
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Learning methods
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The module is mostly theoretical, aiming to build economic and econometric skills. Examples and empirical evidences are provided in order to illustrate the possible application of these skills. The lectures will mainly illustrate the economic and econometric theory, the seminars organized in group of about 20 students and running fortnightly, have the aim of applying the theory on real situations and discussing the empirical evidences. It is therefore important to attend lectures regularly, and follow the assigned readings for the seminars. The textbook and the material provided are the only required readings for the final exams, but an intensive knowledge of this material is necessary.
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Syllabus
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See Further Details
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Illustrative reading
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Basu, K. (1997) Analytical Development Economics, MIT press.
Ray, D.(1998) Development Economics, Princeton University Press.
Acemoglu, D. and J. Robinson (2006), Economic Origins of dictatorship and Democracy, Cambridge
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Access restricted to Warwick
Further Details
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