NIFB14033U Development Economics
Bacheloruddannelsen i jordbrugsøkonomi
MSc Programme in Agricultural Development
This is a course for students interested in the challenges posed by the vast and enduring world poverty, in the way economists conceptualize those challenges, their causes and solutions. Key questions we will be discussing during this course include: What is life like when living with under a dollar a day? Are famines unavoidable? Is child labour necessary? Is education the key to lift people out of poverty? Without property rights, is life destined to be miserable? Why are the poor forest-dependent and the forest-dependent poor? Does growth help the poorest of the poor?
The topics explored include:
Poverty and inequality
Economic growth theory
Food production and consumption
Health and Education (human capital)
Poverty-Environment linkages
Urbanization and migration
Democracy, governance and conflicts
Policy making and how the state, donors, NGOs and the private sector can support or hinder development
Towards the end of the course, students should be able to:
Knowledge:
Define and explain development economics concepts and models
Characterize economic life in developing countries
Skills:
- Explain the root causes of the problems faced by households and institutions in developing countries
- Analyze quantitative data with Excel
- Solve case study problems on different aspects of economic life in developing countries
Competences:
Discuss and cooperate with fellow students to solve problems
Apply general economic thinking as well as the concepts and specialized models of development economics to analyze development econoimic and policy-related questions
Critically reflect on and discuss causes of economic problems faced by households and institutions in developing countries
The course is based on a textbook. Precise details on literature will be given on Absalon prior to course start.
Additional material (e.g. scientific articles, selected book chapters and reports) will be supplied throughout the course.
- Category
- Hours
- E-Learning
- 25
- Exam
- 4
- Lectures
- 20
- Practical exercises
- 27
- Preparation
- 130
- Total
- 206
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- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Written examination, 4 timer under invigilationThe course has been selected for ITX exam at Peter Bangs Vej.
- Aid
- All aids allowed
- Marking scale
- 7-point grading scale
- Censorship form
- No external censorship
One internal examiner
- Re-exam
If 10 or fewer register for the reexamination the examination form will be oral.
Criteria for exam assesment
Assesment in accordance with the learning outcomes
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- NIFB14033U
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Level
- Bachelor
- Duration
- 1 block
- Placement
- Block 4
- Schedule
- B
- Course capacity
- no limit
- Continuing and further education
- Study board
- Study Board of Natural Resources and Environment
Contracting department
- Department of Food and Resource Economics
Course responsibles
- Mariève Pouliot (4-71657473446d6a7673326f7932686f)