Course
Development Economics
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Teacher(s)Menno Pradhan, Wouter Zant, Marc Witte
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Research fieldEmpirical Microeconomics
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DatesPeriod 3 - Jan 08, 2024 to Mar 01, 2024
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Course typeField
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Program yearSecond
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Credits3
Course description
The course provides an advanced treatment of a number of core topics in Development Economics. In this course the following topics are covered:
- Global poverty and inequality trends and prospects
- Model-based imputation in welfare analysis
- Manufacturing as a development strategy
- Gender and development
- Credit, savings, and the financial lives of the poor
- Health and health insurance
- Research ethics
Course literature
Primary reading
- Selected papers.