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Instructors: Andrea Lassmann
Event type:
online: Lecture
Displayed in timetable as:
V: Int Eco II
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Requirements / organisational issues:
The course material and further literature suggestions will be available at reader.uni-mainz.de
Contents:
The course introduces basic and advanced concept in development economics from a macroeconomic perspective. The lecturer will start with concepts of income inequality and poverty and then discusses primarily the determinants of growth and economic development. During the first part of the lecture we discuss the history of growth and development and introduce major growth theories such as the Solow model. The second part of the lecture deals with particular determinants of growth, namely inequality, financial market development, demography, education in particular, trade, geography and governance. Students will also learn to identify causal links between economic growth and its determinants by using different econometric approaches.
Recommended reading list:
Weil, David (2012): Economic Growth (International Edition), Pearson Education Ltd., 3rd edition.
Sen, Amartya (2010): The Idea Of Justice. Penguin
Atkinson, A. B. (1997): Bringing Income Distribution In From The Cold. Economic Journal 107, pp. 297ff
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