| Credit: | 6 |
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| Status: | CFS - elective EEI and EP - elective English ET - elective F,FM and B - elective Masters - all MEF - elective Semester - winter |
| Course supervisors: | doc. PhDr. Michal Bauer Ph.D. |
| Course homepage: | JEM123 |
| Literature: | Primer text is Ray Debraj (1998): Development economics. Princeton University Press. This textbook will be supplemented by a packet of recent articles and book chapters. You can download them via the intranet (Moodles, http://dl1.cuni.cz/course/category.php?id=44) or they are in the library in the folder for this course. |
| Description: | The course covers major approaches in development economics. It focuses mainly on the least developed countries and it discusses concepts that are important for understanding causes of under-development and poverty. After introducing traditional growth models, particular attention is devoted to the role of technological complementarities, population growth, human capital, institutions and financial market imperfections. |
