114-0409/01 – Developing Countries Economics (ERZ)
Gurantor department | Department of Economics | Credits | 4 |
Subject guarantor | doc. Ing. Martin Hodula, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | doc. Ing. Martin Hodula, Ph.D. |
Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
Year | 3 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
Year of introduction | 2019/2020 | Year of cancellation | |
Intended for the faculties | EKF | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
To acquaint students with the functioning of developing economies and their specifics through the lens of macroeconomic and empirical models. To acquire the ability to analyze a specific problem in a concrete model framework. Completion of the subject should better prepare the student for the economic influences of the contemporary globalized world, both in the field of foreign trade and in the field of international capital operations.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Summary
What is the cause of the huge differences in income levels and economic growth around the world? What prevents developing countries from reaching a higher level of development? What are the most important drivers of economic growth and what policies have the greatest potential to reduce poverty and increase the well-being of people in the developing world? This course covers the following topics: general patterns of development around the world, theories of economic growth, the role of international institutions, economic policy, global public goods, foreign aid, social program evaluation, microfinance, and international migration.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
E-learning
Other requirements
Active participation in seminars, study of recommended literature.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1st Introduction to the study. Determination of conditions of course. analysis literature, entering seminary work.
2nd Categorization of developing countries (hereafter DC). Differentiation stages. newly industrialized DC. Least-developed stages.
3rd Basic characteristics of DC. DC as a historical phenomenon. structural characteristic of DC.
4th The theory of developing economies. Development of views on the DC. Theory erratic circles. Myrdalovo concept stages.
5th The sectoral analysis of developing economies. Agrarian, průmyslovýn sector and service sector in the DC.
6th Theory of growth in developing economies. Marxist, neoclaDCical, and
Keynesian models of growth in DC.
7th Newly industrialized countries. Asian, Latin - American stages. trouble
former COMECON countries.
8th Oil States. Special oil exporting countries. Financial center
these countries. OPEC as a cartel.
9th International trade and DC. DC position in the international division of labor. Special trade DC.
10th The international movement of capital in stages. Capital resources DC. international economic aid and international economic institutions.
11th Debt problems in stages. 80th debtor crisis years. The development of debt DC in the 90 years.
12th International institutions and DC. UN economic institutions. regional
Development Bank.
13th Integration proceDCes in DC. The theory of integration in terms of DC. integration DC groups in Latin America, Africa and Asia.
14th CR and the DC. Relationship of DC Czechoslovakia until 1989. The development of foreign trade with DC. Other forms of relationship of Czech Republic to the DC.
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction
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