Course Learning Outcomes
- Understand the complexity of economic growth and development and the debates surrounding the ways and means to support it.
- Gain knowledge of various paradigms of economic development, and their application in a geographic and historic perspective.
- Gain factual knowledge of the “international aid architecture,” including the main institutional actors, the policy framework, and operational challenges.
- Be able to critically address current/historical debates surrounding political economy of development, and the role of democracy vis-a-vis development outcomes.