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Ever since Adam Smith has written “The Wealth of Nations” there is a question about rich and poor countries. In this course, it will discuss all the important technical issues and progress of economics. Advanced level of materials is used for this course. Beginners can apply for this course. If you can pass the final exam you can earn our “Development Economics” certificate.
Assessment
This course does not involve any written exams. Students need to answer 5 assignment questions to complete the course, the answers will be in the form of written work in pdf or word. Students can write the answers in their own time. Each answer needs to be 200 words (1 Page). Once the answers are submitted, the tutor will check and assess the work.
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Course Credit: MR University
Course Curriculum
Module: 1 | |||
Basic Facts of Growth and Development | 00:13:00 | ||
The Importance of Institutions (Brief) | 00:06:00 | ||
Guns, Germs and Steel | 00:18:00 | ||
How Persistent is Prosperity? (Optional) | 00:07:00 | ||
Geography and Development, Trade | 00:11:00 | ||
Geography and Development, Disease | 00:11:00 | ||
Why Agriculture is Important | 00:02:00 | ||
Industry Builds on Agriculture | 00:03:00 | ||
Green Revolution | 00:04:00 | ||
Micronutrients | 00:03:00 | ||
Productivity Decline | 00:04:00 | ||
Module: 2 | |||
GMOs | 00:12:00 | ||
Land reform in India | 00:06:00 | ||
Sharecropping | 00:05:00 | ||
China’s agricultural reforms | 00:05:00 | ||
Fertilizer, roads, and Africa | 00:02:00 | ||
Garlic (Optional) | 00:02:00 | ||
A tomato border crossing (Optional) | 00:04:00 | ||
Wheat, water, and Saudi Arabia (Optional) | 00:03:00 | ||
Yams, a man’s crop? (Optional) | 00:03:00 | ||
The Rice Price Spike of 2007-2008 (Optional) | 00:04:00 | ||
The Soy Boom (Optional) | 00:02:00 | ||
Module: 3 | |||
Malawi restricts trade in corn (Optional) | 00:05:00 | ||
The Clove Monopoly (Optional) | 00:03:00 | ||
Watermelon scale economies (Optional) | 00:03:00 | ||
Economic import of water | 00:02:00 | ||
Water markets and ethics | 00:03:00 | ||
Water and Monopoly | 00:03:00 | ||
Privatizing urban water | 00:02:00 | ||
Water privatization in Buenos Aires | 00:07:00 | ||
Cochabamba water privatization | 00:04:00 | ||
Problems with water privatization | 00:04:00 | ||
Water and asymmetric information | 00:03:00 | ||
Module: 4 | |||
Water supply and demand | 00:07:00 | ||
Water and common pool problem | 00:06:00 | ||
Ground water in Yemen | 00:05:00 | ||
Wheat, water, and Saudi Arabia | 00:03:00 | ||
Water and dams | 00:03:00 | ||
Virtual water | 00:02:00 | ||
Water Policies for People, by David Zetland (Optional) | 00:08:00 | ||
The Reversal of Fortune | 00:03:00 | ||
The Effect of Geography on Institutions | 00:18:00 | ||
Adam Smith (Optional) | 00:05:00 | ||
Jeffrey Sachs (Optional) | 00:07:00 | ||
Module: 5 | |||
Trust and economic growth | 00:07:00 | ||
The Solow Model (Brief, no math) | 00:08:00 | ||
The Middle Income Trap | 00:05:00 | ||
What Is the Rule of 70? | 00:03:00 | ||
Premature Deindustrialization | 00:09:00 | ||
Purchasing Power Parity: When in India, Get a Haircut | 00:04:00 | ||
GDP & PPP | 00:17:00 | ||
The Solow Model 1 – Introduction | 00:15:00 | ||
The Solow Model 2: Comparative Statics | 00:13:00 | ||
The Solow Model 3 — Taking the Model to Data | 00:17:00 | ||
The Solow Model 4 – Productivity | 00:17:00 | ||
Module: 6 | |||
Development Economics Midterm | 00:01:00 | ||
Double Marginalization Problem | 00:13:00 | ||
O-Ring Model | 00:19:00 | ||
Paul Romer (Optional) | 00:16:00 | ||
Productivity in Firms | 00:07:00 | ||
Productivity and firm size | 00:02:00 | ||
Two myths about multinationals | 00:06:00 | ||
Calculation of profit and loss | 00:08:00 | ||
Industrial policy: theory | 00:07:00 | ||
Industrial policy: evidence | 00:07:00 | ||
Conditional convergence | 00:04:00 | ||
Module: 7 | |||
Local monopoly power | 00:04:00 | ||
Comparative Advantage | 00:12:00 | ||
Comparative Advantage 2:Homework | 00:05:00 | ||
Sources of Comparative Advantage | 00:08:00 | ||
Development and Trade: Empirical Evidence | 00:15:00 | ||
Trade and Tariff History | 00:04:00 | ||
Trade and Poverty in India | 00:04:00 | ||
Does “Fair Trade” Help? | 00:06:00 | ||
World Trade Organization | 00:07:00 | ||
Module: 8 | |||
Property Rights 1: Private v. Collective | 00:09:00 | ||
Property Rights 2: Titling | 00:10:00 | ||
Property Rights 3: Communal Property, Enclosure and the State | 00:08:00 | ||
Hernando de Soto (Optional) | 00:08:00 | ||
Corruption and Growth | 00:04:00 | ||
Corruption and Tech Transfer | 00:05:00 | ||
Corruption with Cash Transfers | 00:04:00 | ||
Corruption: Who Pays and How Much | 00:04:00 | ||
Corruption, Rent Seeking and Multiple Equilibria | 00:13:00 | ||
Corruption with and without Theft | 00:05:00 | ||
Tullock Paradox | 00:03:00 | ||
Module: 9 | |||
Causes of Corruption | 00:08:00 | ||
Gender and Corruption | 00:04:00 | ||
Corruption and Output Composition | 00:01:00 | ||
Corruption, Justice, and Development | 00:10:00 | ||
IPaidaBribe com | 00:02:00 | ||
No Considerations: Doing Business in India Without Bribes | 00:11:00 | ||
Corruption Indices | 00:02:00 | ||
Corruption and Parking Tickets | 00:05:00 | ||
Indian Drivers | 00:03:00 | ||
Anne Krueger | 00:04:00 | ||
Jagdish N. Bhagwati | 00:02:00 | ||
Module: 10 | |||
How to Fight Corruption | 00:02:00 | ||
Corruption and Public Sector Wages | 00:03:00 | ||
Recipients and Donors: Basic Facts ! | 00:10:00 | ||
Does Foreign Aid Increase Growth? | 00:10:00 | ||
Knowledge Problems and Incentive Problems | 00:05:00 | ||
Examples of Aid that Works | 00:05:00 | ||
The World Bank | 00:07:00 | ||
The IMF | 00:07:00 | ||
Millennium Villages Project | 00:09:00 | ||
Finance and Growth | 00:16:00 | ||
Finance Law and Trust (Mexico) | 00:08:00 | ||
Module: 11 | |||
Introduction to Microfinance (Portfolios of the Poor) | 00:07:00 | ||
Why Microcredit? | 00:04:00 | ||
Why Microsavings? | 00:02:00 | ||
ROSCAs and Chit Funds | 00:08:00 | ||
Microcredit Evidence | 00:03:00 | ||
Robert Townsend | 00:05:00 | ||
Earning Money | 00:04:00 | ||
Spending Money | 00:03:00 | ||
Are the Poor Overwhelmed? | 00:03:00 | ||
Poverty and Attention | 00:03:00 | ||
Conditional Cash Transfers | 00:03:00 | ||
Module: 12 | |||
AmartyaSen #1 on Capabilities | 00:04:00 | ||
AmartyaSen #2 “Missing Women” | 00:07:00 | ||
“The Other Path” | 00:07:00 | ||
Edward Banfield | 00:03:00 | ||
Child Labor | 00:06:00 | ||
Bonded Labor | 00:05:00 | ||
Randomized Controlled Trials, Part One | 00:10:00 | ||
Randomized Controlled Trials, Part Two | 00:09:00 | ||
Private Health Insurance | 00:04:00 | ||
Cholera in Haiti | 00:05:00 | ||
Fighting Diarrhea | 00:04:00 | ||
Module: 13 | |||
What to do about HIV/AIDS? | 00:04:00 | ||
Deworming | 00:03:00 | ||
Pricing Mosquito Nets | 00:03:00 | ||
Birth Weight and Cash Transfers | 00:04:00 | ||
Participation in Uganda | 00:03:00 | ||
The Quality of Medical Advice | 00:04:00 | ||
The Kerala Paradox | 00:08:00 | ||
Education and Economic Growth | 00:04:00 | ||
Education in East Asia | 00:04:00 | ||
Education and Latin Growth | 00:04:00 | ||
Teacher Attendance | 00:03:00 | ||
Module: 14 | |||
Vouchers in Colombia | 00:02:00 | ||
Colonial Education in India | 00:02:00 | ||
Parental Expectations from School | 00:03:00 | ||
Quantity vs. Quality of Children | 00:06:00 | ||
Thoughts on Education | 00:08:00 | ||
Conditional Cash Transfers | 00:03:00 | ||
Mobile phones and literacy | 00:03:00 | ||
The Rise of Private Education in India | 00:10:00 | ||
Testing for Cream Skimming in India | 00:11:00 | ||
Democracy and Reforms | 00:07:00 | ||
The Theory of the Median Voter | 00:08:00 | ||
Module: 15 | |||
The Agenda Setter | 00:08:00 | ||
Roving and Stationary Bandits | 00:05:00 | ||
Democracy in the Arab World | 00:04:00 | ||
African Borders and Conflict | 00:05:00 | ||
Will China Democratize? | 00:06:00 | ||
Is there a Natural Resource Curse? | 00:06:00 | ||
SenIII Democracy and Famines | 00:03:00 | ||
Basic Facts about Migration | 00:04:00 | ||
Wage Gains from Immigration | 00:03:00 | ||
Remittances | 00:04:00 | ||
Is there a Brain Drain? | 00:05:00 | ||
Module: 16 | |||
Wage Effects in the U.S. | 00:08:00 | ||
Internal Chinese Migration | 00:04:00 | ||
Demographic Transitions | 00:09:00 | ||
Population and Economic Growth | 00:07:00 | ||
The Malthusian Argument | 00:06:00 | ||
The African Demographic Dividend | 00:04:00 | ||
Environmental Economics | 00:07:00 | ||
Temperature and Growth | 00:04:00 | ||
Skyscrapers and Slums: What’s Driving Mumbai’s Housing Crisis? | 00:08:00 | ||
Rent Control in Mumbai | 00:09:00 | ||
Rent Control in Mumbai | 00:09:00 | ||
Module: 17 | |||
East India Company | 00:07:00 | ||
Land taxation in early India | 00:02:00 | ||
The deindustrialization of India | 00:05:00 | ||
Education in colonial India | 00:02:00 | ||
Railroads and colonial India | 00:04:00 | ||
Gandhi and the Salt March | 00:05:00 | ||
Did British rule help India? | 00:08:00 | ||
India since Independence | 00:02:00 | ||
India’s toughest economic times | 00:04:00 | ||
India’s growth inflection | 00:05:00 | ||
India’s reforms of the 1990s | 00:05:00 | ||
Module: 18 | |||
Trade and Poverty in India | 00:04:00 | ||
Agriculture in India | 00:06:00 | ||
Green Revolution | 00:04:00 | ||
Land reform in India | 00:06:00 | ||
Food crises and India’s media | 00:07:00 | ||
Power generation in India | 00:05:00 | ||
Foreign investment in India | 00:04:00 | ||
Competition from foreign retailers | 00:06:00 | ||
Purchasing Power Parity: When in India, Get a Haircut | 00:04:00 | ||
Skyscrapers and Slums: What’s Driving Mumbai’s Housing Crisis? | 00:08:00 | ||
Rent Control in Mumbai | 00:09:00 | ||
Module: 19 | |||
No Considerations: Doing Business in India Without Bribes | 00:11:00 | ||
Bankruptcy law in India | 00:04:00 | ||
Labor market regulation | 00:06:00 | ||
India’s macroeconomic stability | 00:04:00 | ||
Castes and groundwater trade | 00:04:00 | ||
India’s air and water pollution | 00:05:00 | ||
Mobility in the caste system | 00:05:00 | ||
Corruption in driver’s licenses | 00:03:00 | ||
Lentils as incentive | 00:03:00 | ||
The Kerala Paradox | 00:08:00 | ||
Module: 20 | |||
The Rise of Private Education in India | 00:10:00 | ||
Testing for Cream Skimming in India | 00:11:00 | ||
Edward Luce on India | 00:05:00 | ||
India business profiles | 00:04:00 | ||
Service sector growth | 00:06:00 | ||
Frugal innovation for the heart | 00:04:00 | ||
The value of English | 00:03:00 | ||
Female leadership in India | 00:04:00 | ||
Cable TV and women | 00:03:00 | ||
The economics of Bollywood | 00:06:00 | ||
Module: 21 | |||
Amartya Sen #1 | 00:04:00 | ||
Amartya Sen #2 | 00:07:00 | ||
Amartya Sen #3 | 00:03:00 | ||
Partha Dasgupta | 00:03:00 | ||
Jagdish N. Bhagwati | 00:02:00 | ||
Guide to Leading Thinkers | 00:02:00 | ||
Paul Rosenstein Rodan | 00:04:00 | ||
W. Arthur Lewis | 00:04:00 | ||
Raul Prebisch | 00:02:00 | ||
Bela Balassa | 00:06:00 | ||
Ragnar Nurkse | 00:03:00 | ||
Albert O. Hirschman | 00:03:00 | ||
Module: 22 | |||
Peter Bauer | 00:04:00 | ||
Adam Smith | 00:06:00 | ||
Joseph Schumpeter | 00:02:00 | ||
Alexander Gerschenkron | 00:04:00 | ||
Karl Polanyi | 00:05:00 | ||
Theodore Schultz | 00:03:00 | ||
Edward Banfield | 00:03:00 | ||
Paul Krugman | 00:09:00 | ||
Jagdish N. Bhagwati | 00:02:00 | ||
Anne Krueger | 00:04:00 | ||
Elinor Ostrom | 00:04:00 | ||
Module: 23 | |||
Partha Dasgupta | 00:03:00 | ||
Paul Romer | 00:16:00 | ||
William Easterly | 00:10:00 | ||
Jeffrey Sachs | 00:07:00 | ||
Joseph Stiglitz | 00:04:00 | ||
Robert Townsend | 00:05:00 | ||
Banerjee, Duflo, and Kremer | 00:04:00 | ||
Module: 24 | |||
Amartya Sen #1 | 00:04:00 | ||
Amartya Sen #2 | 00:07:00 | ||
Amartya Sen #3 | 00:03:00 | ||
Paul Collier | 00:04:00 | ||
Dani Rodrik | 00:05:00 | ||
Daron Acemoglu | 00:06:00 | ||
Hernando de Soto | 00:07:00 | ||
Jeffrey Sachs (full) | Conversations with Tyler | 01:32:00 | ||
Dani Rodrik (full) | Conversations with Tyler | 01:24:00 | ||
Assessment | |||
Submit Your Assignment | 00:00:00 | ||
Certification | 00:00:00 |
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