Description

This unit is concerned with the relevance of historical experience to the problems confronting developing countries today; economic and social factors affecting the development process; population and economic development; education, human capital and development; agriculture modernisation and growth; urban-rural dichotomy; the relationship between equality and development; trade, aid and development.

Topics

• Historical Experience and Major Theories of Economic Development
• Income Distribution and Poverty
• Population Problem and Rural-Urban Migration
• Issues of Education
• Agricultural and Industrial Policies
• Capital and Saving
• Fiscal and Financial Policies
• Foreign Savings: Aid and Investment
• Planning, Markets and Politics
• Trade and Development
• Trade Policies in Developing Countries
• Microfinance
• The World Bank, the IMF and the Third World Debt Crisis
• Health, Nutrition and Development