ECON 3720 - International Economic Development

Goals: To gain understanding of the problems and issues of economic development and to examine and appraise the major prevailing approaches to those problems.

Content: Developing as well as high-income market economy perspectives; concepts of growth and development; major contemporary approaches; diversity among the Third World countries; dualism; cultural factors; population, labor, migration and education; poverty and inequality; strategies for investment and structural transformations; international trade, investment and development; planning, control, and macroeconomic policies.

Prerequisites: ECON 1310, ECON 1320, and QMBE 1310 (or equivalent statistics course), with grades of C- or better, or consent of the instructor.

Credits: 4