Dr Gharad Bryan SAL.3.10

Dr Clare Balboni (TBC)

This course is available on the MRes/PhD in Economics and MRes/PhD in Economics and Management. This course is not available as an outside option.

The course will cover advanced topics in development economics where current research is active. It is intended to introduce research students in economics to the latest research in development economics and to serve as an input into the research work of these students.

Additional topics are explored in Development Economics for Research Students I in the Autumn Term. The two half unit courses are designed to complement each other.

30 hours of lectures in the WT.

This course is delivered through lectures totalling a minimum of 30 hours in Winter Term. Attendance is compulsory.

Students will discuss papers in lectures.

Readings will be mainly from journal articles; a list will be supplied at the start of term.

Problem sets (100%) in the WT.

There will be three assessment exercises in WT.  These assessment exercises may include preparing a research paper proposal, an empirical exercise analysing data, a computation exercise, solving a theoretical exercise, or evaluating a recent unpublished working paper. Each assessment exercise will carry equal weight