Undergraduate Course: Development Economics (ECNM10061)
Course Outline
| School | School of Economics |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course introduces key concepts and some major issues of development economics for students with a knowledge of economic and econometric analysis at the undergraduate level. It emphasizes the importance of institutional factors in many problems of development. |
| Course description |
Recent advances and empirical evidence in the subject will be used to cover the following topics:
Micro-finance; Informal insurance against shocks: health insurance/funeral groups; Informal savings groups; Fertility and returns to education in developing countries; Foreign aid efficiency in helping developing countries to grow; Program evaluation with Randomized Control Trials; Behavioural economics applied to development: eliciting risk preferences, etc. with the help of field experiments; Intra-households' consumption allocations.
The course is taught through a programme of lectures and tutorials. Learning-by-doing, through groupwork and presentations is an important ingredient of the course.
|
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | Visiting students should usually have at least 3 Economics courses at grade B or above (or be predicted to obtain this) for entry to this course. This MUST INCLUDE courses in Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, and Introductory Econometrics. We will only consider University/College level courses. |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
|
| Academic year 2016/17, Available to all students (SV1)
|
Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
(
Lecture Hours 20,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 4,
Summative Assessment Hours 3,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
169 )
|
| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
60 %,
Coursework
40 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
|
| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Essay (25%)
Presentation (15%)
Degree Exam (60%)
Semester 1 (only) Visiting Student Assessment:
Presentation (20%)
Essay (40%)
Additional Essay in lieu of Degree Exam (40%) |
| Feedback |
Not entered |
| Exam Information |
| Exam Diet |
Paper Name |
Hours & Minutes |
|
| Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May) | | 2:00 | |
|
| Academic year 2016/17, Part-year visiting students only (VV1)
|
Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
(
Lecture Hours 20,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 4,
Summative Assessment Hours 1,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
171 )
|
| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
|
| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Essay (25%)
Presentation (15%)
Degree Exam (60%)
Semester 1 (only) Visiting Student Assessment:
Presentation (20%)
Essay (40%)
Additional Essay in lieu of Degree Exam (40%) |
| Feedback |
Not entered |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- A knowledge and understanding of key concepts, issues and models in development economics, along with empirical evidence on and policy implications of those models and a deeper understanding of recent research activity in some more specialised areas.
- Research and investigative skills such as problem framing and solving and the ability to assemble and evaluate complex evidence and arguments.
- Communication skills in order to critique, create and communicate understanding and to collaborate with and relate to others.
- Personal effectiveness through task-management, time-management, teamwork and group interaction, dealing with uncertainty and adapting to new situations, personal and intellectual autonomy through independent learning.
- Practical/technical skills such as, modelling skills (abstraction, logic, succinctness), qualitative and quantitative analysis and general IT literacy.
|
Reading List
| There is no single text that covers all aspects of this course at an appropriate level. A variety of advanced readings will be assigned as appropriate, mainly from economics journals. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
See Learning Outcomes |
| Additional Class Delivery Information |
1 x 2:00 Hour Lecture per week for 10 weeks
Tutorials to be arranged in addition |
| Keywords | DevEcon |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Phillippe Lemay-Boucher
Tel:
Email: v1plbou1@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Anna Domagala
Tel: (0131 6)51 5305
Email: Anna.Domagala@ed.ac.uk |
|
© Copyright 2016 The University of Edinburgh - 3 February 2017 3:50 am
|
University Homepage