INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT POLICY:
Theory, methods, and case
studies
GSPP C253 and ARE C253
Fall 2006
Goldman
School of Public Policy
Department of
Agricultural
and Resource Economics
at the University
of California at Berkeley
Instructors: Alain
de Janvry,
Elisabeth Sadoulet
Alain de Janvry: Giannini Hall 211, Friday 3:30-4:30 pm;
alain@are.berkeley.edu
Elisabeth Sadoulet: Giannini Hall 213, Friday 3:30-5:00 pm; sadoulet@are.berkeley.edu
Time: Friday, 10:00-12:00 pm, Location:
3102 Echevery
Prerequisites: Microeconomics and
econometrics
at the Master's level, or consent of instructors.
Announcements:
- Final exam is Friday December 15, 9am-12pm, in GSPP 105. Review questions
will be given on December 8.
- Friday December 8: The great Sachs-Easterly foreign aid debate.
Readings.
- Friday November 17: Assigned readings are 2 background papers prepared for the WDR
2008: Reardon et al, and Hazell et al. (links in updated reading list)
- Friday October 17: Guest lecture on decentralization by Luis-Felipe
Lopez-Calva, visiting Stanford Center for International Development.
Reading: Bardhan, Pranab. "Decentralization of Governance and Development".
The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Volume 16, Number 4, 1 November
2002, pp. 185-205(21). Additional readings on the updated Syllabus.
Syllabus (periodically updated; assigned readings marked with
an *)
Class and Assignment Calendar
Assignments
We will not tolerate late assignments. We discount 20 percentage
points for each day an
assignment is late, ... so not much remains after very few days.
You always have more than 2 weeks to do them, so
don't procrastinate, and plan ahead of time if you have other
assignments due in
other classes.
Handouts
- Handout
#1:
"Concepts of Development: Criteria and Indicators"
- Handout #2:
"Analysis of Poverty and Vulnerability"
- Handout
#3:
"Positive Analysis of Inequality: Indicators and Determinants"
- Handout
#4:
"Social Assistance and the Art of Targeting"
- Handout #5:
"Development and the Environment"
- Handout #6:
"Methods for Impact Analysis"
- Handout #7:
"Access to Financial Services in Development"
- Handout #8:
"Agriculture for Development" - WDR 2008 - powerpoint presentation"
Final exam
is on Friday December 15
Final exams from previous years
Last update: October 2006