Bachelor 2024/2025

Development Economics

Type: Elective course (Economics)

Area of studies: Economics

Delivered by: Department of Theoretical Economics

Where: Faculty of Economic Sciences

When: 3 year, 2 module

Mode of studies: offline

Open to: students of one campus

Language: English

ECTS credits: 3

Contact hours: 28

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course designed to provide an understanding of the basic microeconomic and macroeconomic drivers of economic development. By the end of the course, students will be equipped with conceptual and analytical tools to interpret current global macroeconomic events, with a view to assessing their impact on economic development prospects in the long run. The course has a modular structure, where each of the three modules is self-contained and has a pre-defined set of learning objectives. In each module, the presentation of economic theory will be explained with reference to current events. Introductory courses in microeconomics, macroeconomics and econometrics are pre-requisites for this course.