Economic Development
ECON 317 • Fall 2021 • Hood College
Grapple with the most important question in economics: why some countries are wealthy and others are poor.
By the end of this course, you will:
- Explain how the development community measures economic development
- Interpret regression tables in the empirical literature in development
- Demonstrate different theories of economic development
- Explain why various policies aimed at promoting development have failed
- Describe essential conditions for successful development
- Discuss the broad economic history of “the West”, several key “Emerging Markets” (such as Russia, China, Korea, etc.), and several other case studies of developing countries
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