Development Economics (V-U)

• What is development economics? (V-U)
• Common characteristics of developing countries (V-U)
• Characteristics of the developing world: diversity within commonality (V-U)
• The Harrod-Domar growth model (V-U)
• The Neoclassical Counterrevolution: Market fundamentalism (V-U)
• Distribution and development: seven critical questions: (V-U)
• Multidimensional Poverty Index (V-U)
• Growth, poverty and inequality (V-U)
• The basic issue: population growth and the quality of life (V-U)
• The demographic transition model (V-U)
• The demand for children in developing countries (V-U)
• Goals and objectives: toward a consensus (V-U)
• Human capital (V-U)
• Assumptions of the child labor multiple equilibria model (V-U)
• Educational systems and development (V-U)
• Health measurement and distribution (V-U)
• Actual growth rate (ga) (V-U)
• The production function (V-U)
• Economic agent (V-U)
• Michael kremer’s O-Ring theory of economic development (V-U)
• The migration and urbanization dilemma (V-U)
• Industrial districts (V-U)
• Toward an economic theory of rural-urban migration (V-U)
• The imperative of agricultural progress and rural development (V-U)
• The structure of agrarian systems in the developing world (V-U)