ECONOMIC ISSUES IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD*
国際教養学部
AIBE3170
コース情報
担当教員: FUENTES CORDOBA Gabriel
単位数: 4
年度: 2024
学期: 春学期
曜限: 月2, 木2
形式: 対面授業
レベル: 300
アクティブラーニング: なし
他学部履修: 可
評価方法
出席状況
授業参加
リアクションペーパー
授業内期末試験
授業期間中
詳細情報
概要
[Note: Students that previously took IBE333 (Development Economics) or/and IBE467 (Economics of Poverty) are not allowed to enroll in this course.] This is a non technical economic course intended for students interested in the challenge posed by economic underdevelopment. We will discuss major economic issues in the developing world such as: nutrition, poverty, inequality, health and education, micro-finance, and policy and politics in developing countries.
目標
At the completion of this course, students will be able to: 1) Discuss and critically think about major economic issues in developing countries. 2) Describe the features of successful development policies. 3) Have a basic understanding of development economics.
授業外の学習
Students are expected to read the study materials, work on class assignments, and actively interact on the Moodle platform. For example: ●Preparation of class materials and reading assignments (90 minutes). ●Work on class assignments (30 minutes) ●Review class lecture (70 minutes)
所要時間: 190 minutes per lecture
スケジュール
- [Please Note: The weekly coverage might change as it depends on the progress of the course. Introduction
- What is development economics?
- Social experiments used to understand anti-poverty policies
- Social experiments used to understand anti-poverty policies II
- Poverty traps introduction
- Nutrition based poverty traps?
- Health issues in developing countries
- Demand for health care
- Education and development
- Education and development II
- Population issues in developing countries
- Family economics
- Gender issues in low income regions
- Risk and insurance
- Informal insurance
- Financial issues in the developing world
- The miracle of microfinance?
- Saving with a limited budget
- Low income enterpreneurship?
- Enterpreneurship in low income areas
- Institutions, political economy and development
- Colonialism and long-run paths of development
- Introduction to income issues at the macro-level
- Income issues at the macro-level II
- Income issues at the macro-level III
- Conflict and underdevelopment
- Review session
- Final exam
教科書
Banerjee, Abhijit, and Esther Duflo. Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty. PublicAffairs, 2011.
参考書
書籍情報はありません。