The Economics of Development (L1065)

15 credits, Level 6

Spring teaching

On this module, you’ll gain analytical and empirical tools to understand the functioning of markets and institutions in developing countries.

Key topics include:

• political institutions
• corruption
• property rights
• credit market imperfections
• contractual structures in agriculture
• informal insurance mechanisms.

For each topic, you’ll derive testable implications from theory, evaluate them using econometric testing, and explore policy conclusions.

Contact hours and workload

This module is approximately 150 hours of work. This breaks down into about 33 hours of contact time and about 117 hours of independent study. The University may make minor variations to the contact hours for operational reasons, including timetabling requirements.

We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2024/25. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to feedback, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum.

We’ll make sure to let you know of any material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.