INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT POLICY:
Theory, methods, and case studies

GSPP C253 and ARE C253

Fall 2009

Goldman School of Public Policy
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
at the University of California at Berkeley

Instructor: Alain de Janvry
Alain de Janvry: Giannini Hall 211, Friday 4:00-5:00 pm; alain@are.berkeley.edu

Time: Friday, 10:00-12:00 pm, Location: 285 CORY
Prerequisites: Microeconomics and econometrics at the Master's level, or consent of instructors. Knowledge of Stata or equivalent statistical package.

Announcements:

There will be a review session to go over the review questions for the final examination on Monday Dec 7, 6-7:30 pm in room 105 at GSPP.
Stata Review Session and office hours by Andrew Dustan: adustan@are.berkeley.edu
Final exam is on Friday December 11, 9-12 am GSPP room 105

Review questions
Final exams from previous years: Fall 2007 exam; Fall 2008 exam

Syllabus
Assigned Readings (periodically updated)
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.

Policy Note #1 (due on September 11):
The global food crisis of 2006-08: Were policy responses adequate? Text of assignment
Global Food Crisis: From Urgent Short-term Responses to Viable Longer-Term Solutions Presentation to the Kennedy School, April 2009, by Christopher Delgado.
Quantitative Policy Case #1: Poverty assessment for Mexico (due on October 2, in class)
Text of assignment
Household data (zip file in Stata 9 format)

Policy Note #2 (due on October 16): Payments for Avoided Deforestation or Development Applications of Cellular Phones
Text of assignment
Three articles from The Economist: Eureka Moments, Beyond Voice, Last Gasp for the Forest
Quantitative Policy Case #3 (due on Friday November 6): Impact analysis of Progresa
Text of assignment
data (zip file in Stata format)

Policy Note #3 (due on November 20): Internet-based microfinance lending
Text of assignment

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 part a; Handout #4 part b "Social Programs and the Art of Targeting"
Handout #5:"Methods for Impact Analysis"
Handout #6: "Trade, industrialization, and exchange rate policies"
Handout #7: "Micro-Finance Institutions (MFI) and the microfinance revolution"
Handout #8: "Development and the Environment"
Handout #9: "Common Property Resources and Cooperation"
Handout #10: "Political Economy and the Role of the State in Development"

Last update: September 2009

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT POLICY: Theory, methods, and case studies

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT POLICY:
Theory, methods, and case studies