Universidad Pública de Navarra - Nafarroako Univertsitate Publikoa

Module/Subject matter

Development and Cooperation.

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Contents

The subject focuses in three main parts, dealing first with key development dimensions such as Poverty ( Health, Education and Environment) and Inequality ( Social Exclusion and gender), secondly with development and institutions and finally with the methodology to evaluate the impact of development programs.  The detail of the agenda is described below (Agenda).

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Descriptors

Development, Economic growth and Poverty reduction are the outcomes of a complex set of interactions across the entire range of economic policies and institutions. From this perspective, "Development Economics" must have a very broad meaning. During this course, we will study a variety of cross-cutting themes such as poverty, inequality, corruption, the access to financial markets, the functioning of institutions as well as the methodology to monitor and evaluate the impact of development programs.

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General proficiencies

P01. Analytical capacity.
CG02. Planning and organization skills
GP04. Writing and speaking in English.
GP07. Solving problems skills
GP09. Teamwork skills
GP11. International work.
GP12. Information search from different sources.
GP17. Autonomous learning.
GP19. Creativity.
CG23. Sensibility towards social and environmental problems

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Specific proficiencies

SP01. Understand economic institutions as the result of theoretical or formal representations of modern economies.
CE02. Identify sources for relevant economic data and information.
CE03. Interpret and analyse microeconomic and macroeconomic data.
SP04.Use scientific tools and professional criteria to analyse economic problems.
SP05.Write advising reports on local, national or international economic issues or on sectorial analysis.
SP06.Write economic projects at regional, national or international level.
SP10.Evaluate the implications of alternative economic policies and select those that better achieve the policy targets

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Learning outcomes

General: Economic matters at the national and international level, public sector, economic institutions

Specific:

1) World Development since Second War World 

2) The role  of governments and the international economic institutions in economic development

3) Limits of economic theory when analyzing economic development

Contents:

4) What is development in our society?

5)How to achieve sustainable development

6)The role of human development

7) Inequity and development

8) Strategies that governments and international institutions can implement to cope with poverty

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Methodology

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Languages

English.

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Evaluation

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Agenda

First Part. Development Dimensions
Chapter 1: Development Perspectives
Chapter 2: Poverty
2.1. Health
2.2. Education
2.3. Environment
Chapter 3: Inequality
3.1. Gender
3.2. Social Exclusion
 
Second Part: Development and Institutions
Chapter 4: Corruption and Institutions
Chapter 5: Development Aid and Conditionality
Chapter 6: Empowerment and access to market programs
 
Third Part: Impact Evaluation of Social Development Programs
Chapter 7: Monitoring and Process Evaluation
Chapter 8: Impact Evaluation of Social Programs

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Bibliography

Access the bibliography that your professor has requested from the Library.

• Banerjee A.V., Duflo E. (2011): Poor Economics. Public Affairs, New York.
• Deneulin S., Shahani L. (2009): An introduction to the Human Development and Capability Approach: Freedom and Agency. Earthscan, London.
• Gertler, P.J, Martínez S., Premand P., Rawlings L.B., Vermeersch C. (2007): Impact Evaluation in Practice, The World Bank. http://www.worldbank.org/pdt
• Rodrick D., Rosenzweig M.R. (2010): Handbooks: Development Economics, North-Holland, Amsterdam.
• Schultz T.P., Strauss J. (2008): Handbook of Development Economics, Volume 4, North-Holland, Amsterdam.
• Sen A.K. (1999): Development as freedom. New York.

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Location

UPNA; Campus de Arrosadía.

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