Бакалавриат
2024/2025
Экономика развития
Статус:
Курс по выбору (Совместная программа по экономике НИУ ВШЭ и РЭШ)
Направление:
38.03.01. Экономика
Где читается:
Факультет экономических наук
Когда читается:
3-й курс, 1, 2 модуль
Формат изучения:
без онлайн-курса
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
6
Контактные часы:
64
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The course is an introduction tomodern development economics.
The course takesthe perspective ofthe poor, be it a poor household ora poor individual:what choices
does the poor have? What are the trade-offs? What choices does s/he take (and why)?
The first goal ofthe course is to discusssome commonwisdoms associated with the poor.
For example, poor households are.. poor. So they spend everything they have on food, right?
Poverty is often concentrated in rural areas. So poor households work exclusively in agriculture, right?
Since poor households are ..poor, then they have no access to credit, do not save and do not insure
themselves, right?
We will answerthese questionsthrough the lens of empirical evidence and simple economic theory. In
the first part of the course, we will discuss possible and actual choices regarding nutrition, education,
health and intra-household bargaining.We willsee that the poor are often perfectly rational andmuch
smarter than what common wisdom suggests.
The course is as much aboutthe poor as itis aboutthe key factors that shape their lives:the State, the markets,the socio-economic environment.