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- Code:
- 31E1500
- Field:
- Development Economics
- Targets:
- Master’s students Research Master's students PhD students
- Organiser:
- Aalto University
- Instructor:
- Miri Stryjan
- Period:
- Period 1
- Format:
- Lecture
- Method:
- Contact teaching
- Venue:
- Otaniemi campus
- Enrollment:
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Hanken and UH economics students can enroll in their home university’s SISU! Further instructions can be found on the How to enroll? page, also for other students.
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Content
The course will consist of classroom lectures and exercise sessions. It will cover topics such as:
- How poverty is defined and measured
- The livelihoods of the poor:
- agriculture
- small businesses
- Credit and financial services
- Health
- Impact evaluation
- Growth theories
- Institutions
Learning outcomes
The course introduces students to central concepts in the study of developing countries and poverty. Students will:
- Gain an overview of the field of development economics and major topics in policy and research within the field.
- Practice the understanding and use of the most common statistical methods used in the empirical study of development economics, with a focus on causal inference.
- Learn about ways to measure and define poverty, and the main explanations highlighted in the field of economics for differences in growth and income levels between rich and poor countries.