Ekonómia rozvoja (v anglickom jazyku)

  • Credits: 6
  • Ending: Examination
  • Range: 2P + 2C
  • Semester: winter
  • Year: 3
  • Faculty of Economics and Finance

Teachers

Included in study programs

Applied Economics

Teaching results

Knowledge
Students will gain knowledge of basic facts about economic development, theories and sources of economic growth, the role of institutions in development, relations between development, inequalities and environment.
E.g. they will be able to explain the differences between proximate and fundamental sources of growth and provide empirical facts about their importance for economic development.
Skills
Students will acquire skills for the analysis of data on economic development based on standard procedures in this area and will be able to communicate their results clearly in the form of graphs and tables.
E.g. based on Penn World Tables 10.1 database they will be able to construct a figure to test beta-convergence hypothesis for sample of countries and to interpret and present the results.
Competences
Students will be able to support their claims about economic development with facts from international statistics and empirical studies on economic development.
Students will be able to give an engaging presentation on a selected area of economic development.

Indicative content

1. Basic facts about economic development (per capita income, inequalities, poverty, education, health).
2. Solow growth model.
3. Absolute and conditional beta convergence.
4. Human capital.
5. Growth and development accounting.
6. Productivity.
7. Efficiency and technology.
8. Empirics and modeling of technological progress.
9. Income inequalities within countries.
10. Underdevelopment and poverty.
11. Structural changes.
12. Institutions and economic development.

Support literature

Thirlwall, A.P. and Pacheco-López, P., 2017. Economics of development: Theory and evidence. Palgrave.
Banerjee, A.V., Banerjee, A. and Duflo, E., 2011. Poor economics: A radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty. Public Affairs.
Weil, David N. 2013. Economic Growth. 3rd Edition. Addison Wesley.
Mankiw – Romer – Weil, 1992. A contribution to the empirics of economic growth. In: The Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 1992.
Dujava, D. – Lábaj, M. – Workie, M. T. 2011. Štruktúra ekonomiky a ekonomický rast: ako naplniť teóriu číslami. Bratislava: IRIS, 2011
Workie, M. T. 2013. Teórie a empírie ekonomického rastu a konvergencie. Vydavateľstvo
Ekonóm: Bratislava, 2013.

Requirements to complete the course

20 % - activity and tests during seminars
20 % - assignments and semester project
60 % - final exam
Total study load (in hours): 156 (participation in lectures 26, participation in seminars 13, elaboration of a semester project 13, preparation for the credit test 26, preparation for the final exam 26)

Language whose command is required to complete the course

anglický jazyk

Date of approval: 28.02.2022

Date of the latest change: 19.04.2021