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Growth and Development
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Growth and development
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Academic year 2013/2014
- Course ID
- ECO0227
- Teacher
- Mariacristina Rossi (Titolare del corso)
- Teaching period
- Secondo semestre
- Type
- A scelta dello studente
- Credits/Recognition
- 6
- Course disciplinary sector (SSD)
- SECS-P/01 - economia politica
- Delivery
- Tradizionale
- Language
- Inglese
- Attendance
- Facoltativa
- Type of examination
- Scritto ed orale
- Examination methods
- Written Exam and Essay
- Prerequisites
- Knowledge of statistics, Mathematical otimisation tool. Basic Econometrics
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Sommario del corso
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Course objectives
The course aims at providing students with the theoretical tools to analyze the economic growth theories and the economic problems of developing countries. The topics covered during the lectures include: economic growth, migration, human capital accumulation decisions, agricultural household models, risk and insurance, poverty and vulnerability. The course includes, also, a practical session using microdata to familiarize with the econometric and statistical tools to perform empirical analysis on developing countries datasets
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Results of learning outcomes
Students should learn how to formalize basic rural household problem and sketch an empirical realated analysis using STATA or other econometric packages.
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Program
1.The general household model 2.Vicious circle of poverty and multiple equilibria 3.Economic Growth models 4. The Dual Economy and Migration 5 Human capital accumulation 6. Risk and Insurance 7 Poverty and Vulnerability 8 Impact evaluation 9 Empirical applications on the topics learned using STATA
Suggested readings and bibliography
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Bardham and Udry, Development Microeconomic, 1993 Basu, Analytical Development Economics, 1997 Romer, Advanced Macroeconomics, 1996
Additional references will be provided during lectures.
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Note
Attendance is strongly reccommended
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