- Docente: Paolo Masella
- Credits: 6
- SSD: SECS-P/01
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Economics and Finance (cod. 8835)
Learning outcomes
By the end of the course students have achieved the following knowledge: (a) acquired an enhanced empirical knowledge of economic conditions in low and middle income economies; (b) acquired an understanding of the functioning of financial markets in developing countries; (c) consolidated the understanding of those elements of basic economic theory which we apply to the problems of development and financial markets; (d) acquired an understanding of the main theoretical results and empirical methods that are used by the profession to study developing countries.
Course contents
Topics:
1) Foreign Aid
2) Credit Markets
3) Microfinance
4) Insurance Markets
5) Agricultural Markets
6) Savings
7) Education
8) Health
9) Historical Institutions
10) Corruption
11) Property Rights
Readings/Bibliography
Banerjee and Esther Duflo, Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty, Public Affairs, New York, 2011
Teaching methods
Slides and Blackboard
Assessment methods
Written Examination and Presentation/Discussion of a research topic
Teaching tools
PDF slides of the course distributed to students.
Office hours
See the website of Paolo Masella