wir893 - Development Economics (Vollständige Modulbeschreibung)

Modulbezeichnung	Development Economics
Modulkürzel	wir893
Kreditpunkte	6.0 KP
Workload	180 h
Einrichtungsverzeichnis	Department für WiRe (BWL und Wirtschaftspädagogik)
Verwendbarkeit des Moduls	Master Applied Economics and Data Science (Master) > Economics Master Sustainability Economics and Management (Master) > Ergänzungsmodule
Zuständige Personen	Bitzer, Jürgen (Modulverantwortung) Lehrenden, Die im Modul (Prüfungsberechtigt) Bitzer, Jürgen (Modulberatung)
Teilnahmevoraussetzungen
Kompetenzziele	The students are able: to identify an discuss empirical challenges in research on developing countries to understand, summarize, and discuss recent research studies in development economics evaluate strategies to reach sustainable economic development discussed in the public and politics participate in a discussion on the topic, developing a well-grounded position and problem solving strategy to present current research to and discuss it verbally and in written form to identify gaps in the literature on developing countries
Modulinhalte	The module introduces the students to the current challenges of developing countries and the strategies to overcome them. The module will focus on the empirical research on developing countries, addressing the reasons for the sluggish development as well as the applied approaches to foster economic development. In the lecture the empirical methods used in development economics will be discussed. In the seminar current research papers on topics like poverty, conflicts, foreign aid, health, human capital and institutions in developing countries will be discussed.
Literaturempfehlungen	Michael P. Todaro and Stephen C. Smith (2014): Economic Development, 12^th Edition, Pearson: New York. Söderbom, Måns , Francis Teal, Markus Eberhardt, Simon Quinn and Andrew Zeitlin (2015): Empirical Development Economics, Routledge: New York.
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Unterrichtssprache	Englisch
Dauer in Semestern	1 Semester
Angebotsrhythmus Modul	Yearly
Aufnahmekapazität Modul	unbegrenzt
Modulart	Pflicht o. Wahlpflicht / compulsory or optional
Modullevel	MM (Mastermodul / Master module)
Lehr-/Lernform	Lecture and seminar
Vorkenntnisse	Econometrics, Economic Growth

Lehrveranstaltungsform	SWS	Angebotsrhythmus	Workload Präsenz
Vorlesung	2	SoSe oder WiSe	28
Seminar	2	SoSe oder WiSe	28
Präsenzzeit Modul insgesamt			56 h

Prüfung	Prüfungszeiten	Prüfungsform
Gesamtmodul	At the end of the lecture period	Formal presentation with written elaboration and discussion