Undergraduate Course: Development Economics (ECNM10061)

Course Outline
School	School of Economics	College	College of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate)	Availability	Available to all students
SCQF Credits	20	ECTS Credits	10
Summary	This course introduces key concepts and some major issues of development economics for students with a knowledge of economic and econometric analysis at the undergraduate level. It emphasizes the importance of institutional factors in many problems of development.
Course description	Recent advances and empirical evidence in the subject will be used to cover the following topics: Micro-finance; Informal insurance against shocks: health insurance/funeral groups; Informal savings groups; Fertility and returns to education in developing countries; Foreign aid efficiency in helping developing countries to grow; Program evaluation with Randomized Control Trials; Behavioural economics applied to development: eliciting risk preferences, etc. with the help of field experiments; Intra-households' consumption allocations. The course is taught through a programme of lectures and tutorials. Learning-by-doing, through groupwork and presentations is an important ingredient of the course.

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites	Students MUST have passed: Economics 2 (ECNM08006)	Co-requisites	Students MUST also take: Essentials of Econometrics (ECNM10052) AND Topics in Microeconomics (ECNM10070)
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisites	Visiting students should usually have at least 3 Economics courses at grade B or above (or be predicted to obtain this) for entry to this course. This MUST INCLUDE courses in Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, and Introductory Econometrics. We will only consider University/College level courses.
High Demand Course?	Yes

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2015/16, Available to all students (SV1)		Quota: None
Course Start	Semester 1
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 200 ( Lecture Hours 20, Seminar/Tutorial Hours 4, Summative Assessment Hours 3, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 169 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 60 %, Coursework 40 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	Essay (25%) Presentation (15%) Degree Exam (60%) Part-year Visiting Student Assessment: Presentation (20%) Essay (40%) Additional Essay in lieu of Degree Exam (40%)
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Exam Information
Exam Diet	Paper Name		Hours & Minutes
Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May)			2:00

Academic year 2015/16, Part-year visiting students only (VV1)		Quota: None
Course Start	Semester 1
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 200 ( Lecture Hours 20, Seminar/Tutorial Hours 4, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 172 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	Essay (25%) Presentation (15%) Degree Exam (60%) Part-year Visiting Student Assessment: Presentation (20%) Essay (40%) Additional Essay in lieu of Degree Exam (40%)
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to: A knowledge and understanding of key concepts, issues and models in development economics, along with empirical evidence on and policy implications of those models and a deeper understanding of recent research activity in some more specialised areas. Research and investigative skills such as problem framing and solving and the ability to assemble and evaluate complex evidence and arguments. Communication skills in order to critique, create and communicate understanding and to collaborate with and relate to others. Personal effectiveness through task-management, time-management, teamwork and group interaction, dealing with uncertainty and adapting to new situations, personal and intellectual autonomy through independent learning. Practical/technical skills such as, modelling skills (abstraction, logic, succinctness), qualitative and quantitative analysis and general IT literacy.

Reading List
There is no single text that covers all aspects of this course at an appropriate level. A variety of advanced readings will be assigned as appropriate, mainly from economics journals.

Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills	See Learning Outcomes
Additional Class Delivery Information	1 x 2:00 Hour Lecture per week for 10 weeks Tutorials to be arranged in addition
Keywords	DevEcon