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ECON 483 - Macroeconomics of Development


Fall or Spring (3) Abegaz, BenYishay, Feldman, Shiferaw Prerequisite(s): ECON 303  and ECON 304 .

This course is one of two courses on theories of growth and diversification, and the evidence for them, in low-income countries which account for half of the Gross World Product.  Development macroeconomics focuses on what makes economies grow as well as the concomitant changes in the structures of employment, income, output, and trade.  Other topics may include poverty and inequality, industrialization, demographic transition, urbanization, global integration, macropolicy, and development strategy.