SemesterSpring Semester, 2018
DepartmentGraduate Institute of Deveopment Studies MA Program, First Year Graduate Institute of Deveopment Studies PhD Program, First Year Graduate Institute of Deveopment Studies MA Program, Second Year Graduate Institute of Deveopment Studies PhD Program, Second Year
Course NameDevelopment Economics: An International Perspective
InstructorSU YU-HSUAN
Credit3.0
Course TypeElective
Prerequisite
Course Objective
Course Description
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Week Date Topic Format

Learning hours (including class time)
1 2/27/2018 Introduction, Principles of Economics, Regression & Evaluation Lecture 9
2 3/6/2018 Overview & Stata Lecture 12
3 3/13/2018 Agricultural Households Group presentation & Lecture 12
4 3/20/2018 Intra-Household Allocation Group presentation & Lecture 12
5 3/27/2018 Nutrition, Health & HIV/AIDS Group presentation & Lecture 12
6 4/3/2018 Education & Child Labor Group presentation & Lecture 12
7 4/10/2018 Labor Market & Unemployment Group presentation & Lecture 12
8 4/17/2018 Microfinance & Consumption Smoothing Group presentation & Lecture 12
9 4/24/2018 Literature review presentations & critique Individual presentation 12
10 5/1/2018 Literature review presentations & critique Individual presentation 12
11 5/8/2018 Development Issues in Contemporary China (tentative) Lecture 12
12 5/15/2018 International Development Aid Lecture 12
13 5/22/2018 International Development Aid Lecture 12
14 5/29/2018 Final Exam Individual exam 15
15 6/5/2018 Final presentations & critique Individual presentation 12
16 6/12/2018 Final presentations & critique Individual presentation 12
17 6/19/2018 Final reflection    
18 6/26/2018 Final paper due    

Teaching Methods
Teaching Assistant

Jason Chen orcyoyo@gmail.com


Requirement/Grading

  • Homework and Participation (15%)

  • Group Presentations (20%)

  • Literature Review Presentation and Critique (20%)

  • Exam (15%)

  • Final Paper (30%)


Textbook & Reference
Urls about Course
Attachment

syllabus_development.pdf