Economic and Social Development
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
The unit aims to gain basic skills:
One. be able to read papers and economic studies of indole micro-economic of economic development;
2nd. be able to express the level of basic competence oral discussion (presentation of a paper);
3rd. be able to eaborar written a scientific paper on these thematic;
4th. foster capacity-critical analytical and deductive;
5th. promote quantitative analysis, including analysis of micro models of the principal / agent;
6th. sketch thesis proposals, enqudrando them on the subject of uc;
7th. Finally, moving from consumer to producer of scientific literature scientific literature (naturally more pronounced and crucial for PhD students)
Contents
MASTERS and DOCTORATE IN ECONOMICS
UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA
PROGRAM 2011-2012
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
Assistant Professor, PhD: Miguel Rocha de Sousa
Gab. 256, email: mrsousa@uevora.pt or miguelrochasousa@uevora.pt
PROGRAM
1.Introduction: Definition of economic development. Poverty and social exclusion. The indices of the World Bank (other HDI, GPI). Welfare relative and absolute. Equity and efficiency. Poverty, malnutrition and famine. 2nd. Analysis of economic behavior in developing 2i) theories: Households and development. The land market: a key issue. Credit and rural markets: micro-credit and fragmented markets. Human capital and income distribution. Reducing poverty: efficiency and equity. Technical progress in learning and development. Environment 2ii) empirical applications: Human capital. Property rights and incentives. The case of African development. 3rd. Some examples of public policy development. The role of the state, the market and the development of International Organizations. 4th. The role of institutions in economic development process: and Freedoms guarantees as constituent elements of economic development. The political and economic factor in development. The theory of the firm, transaction costs and endogenous development. Other approaches institutionalists development. Culture and development. Limitations of the economic analysis of development
Detailed Program
One. Introduction: Definition of economic development:
Poverty and social exclusion. The indices of the World Bank. Welfare relative and absolute. Equity and efficiency. Poverty and malnutrition. Poverty and Famines.
Bib: [G], [R, Cap.2, 6,7,8], [S1]
2nd. Topics in Microeconomics development
2i) micro Theories:
Households and development [BU1, Cap.2]
The land market: a key issue. [BA caps 11,12], [BU2, Cap.2, 3, 12]
Credit and rural markets: micro-credit and fragmented markets.
[BA caps.13, 14] [BE cap.15], [BU1, and caps.6 7], [Y1, Y2]
Human capital and income distribution. [BU1, cap.10, BU2, cap.5]
Reducing poverty: efficiency and equity. [BU1, cap.11]
Technical progress in learning and development. [BU1, Chap.12]
Development and Environment. [BU1, ch. 13], [G, cap.15]
2ii) Applications micro-empirical
The human capital. [BU3, caps.2, 11]
Property rights and incentives. [BU3, Chap.12]
The case of African development. [TR]
3rd. Some examples of public policy development
3.1. Taxes and fiscal theory [BE cap. 4,5]
3.2. International trade: free trade, and development practices.
[BE caps.1, 2,3]
4th. The role of institutions in economic development process
Freedoms and guarantees as constituent elements of economic development. Accountability. The political and economic factor in development. [S2, S3].
The theory of the firm, transaction costs and endogenous development
[YA, chaps. 8,9,10]
The neo-institutionalist approach to economic development. [N1, N2]
Limitations of the economic analysis of development [BA, cap.15, BR]
Teaching Methods
The teaching was face with explanatory materials, manuals of papers, with discussion;
first framing the challenges of economic development, and looking after oral exposure to small papers prepared by students that they become consumers of the producers of scientific theory;
or at least afinem their strategies research for the thesis.
Assessment
EVALUATION or ASSEMENT RULES
The uc is governed by the following evaluation:
Participation in class: 15%
Paper on themes of class: 50%
* Exam: 35% (with mandatory Note exam> = 8 marks)
(* The exam is an exam lasting 1 week in take-home).
Work or paper:
Topic Paper: 8 October 2011
1st draft: November 18, 2011
Delivery of paper: December 9, 2011
Presentation and discussion in class: 17 December 2011
The work account for both exam periods.
Can be improved in normal season for action.
Exams: [Take-home 1 week]
Examination of Regular Season - 2nd week of exams (6-14 January 2012) [Take home]
Examination of Action - 4th week of exams (20-28 January 2012) [Take home]
Examination of Special Season - September 2012 set the [3h faSe; compulsory paper anyway]
Recommended Reading
BIBLIOGRAPHY
[BA] BASU, Kaushik (1997), Analytical development economics, The MIT Press.
[BE] BELL, Clive (2003), Development Policy as Public Finance, Oxford University Press.
[BR] BRANCO, M. (2009) Economics versus Human Rights, Routledge.
[BU1] BHARDAN, P.; UDRY, C (1999), Development microeconomics, Oxford University Press.
[BU2] BHARDAN, P.; UDRY, C. (2000), Readings in development economics: Micro-theory-vol.1, The MIT Press.
[BU3] BHARDAN, P.; UDRY, C. (2000), Readings in development economics: empirical microeconomics-vol.2, The MIT Press.
[G] GHATAK, Subrata (2003), Introduction to development economics, Routledge, 4th edition.
[N1] NORTH, Douglass (1988), Structure and change in economic history, WW Norton.
[N2] NORTH, Douglass (1990)[2004], Institutions, institutional change and economic performance, Cambridge University Press.
[R]- RAY, Debraj (1998), Development Economics, Princeton University Press.
[S1] SEN, Amartya Kumar (1999), Pobreza e fomes. Um ensaio sobre direitos e privações, ed. Terramar, Lisboa.
[S2] SEN, Amartya Kumar (1999), Development as freedom, Alfred Knopf editor, New York.
[S3] SEN, Amartya Kumar (2009) The Idea of Justice, Allen lane, Penguin.
[T] TODARO, M (2000), Economic development, Addison Wesley.
[TR] TORRES, Adelino, Horizontes do desenvolvimento africano no limiar do século XXI, ed. Vega.
[Y1] YUNUS, M. (2002), O Banqueiro dos pobres, Difel.
[Y2] YUNUS, M. (2007) Creating a world without poverty. Social business and the future of capitalism, NY, Public Affairs.
[YA] YANG, Xiaokai (2003), Economic development and the division of labor, Blackwell Publishing
Teaching Staff
- Miguel Rocha de Sousa [responsible]
