UNIVERSITY OF DELHI DELHI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS Minutes of the Meeting Subject : B.A. (Hons.) Economics Course : Development Theory and Experience II th Date of Meetings : 12 December 2014 Venue : Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi Chair : Prof. Sunil Kanwar Attended by: 1 A.Sunil Dharan Motilal Nehru College 2 Anita Kalindi ...
Economic Development II - Economics 270B SPRING 2004 Professor Edward Miguel (emiguel@econ.berkeley.edu, 642-7162) Office Hours: Wednesdays 8-10:30am, 647 Evans Description: This course examines theoretical and empirical issues in economic development, focusing on growth, political economy, and human resources. Assignments: Three problem sets (30 percent) Two referee reports for unpublished working papers or seminar papers (20 percent) One research project outline, five pages maximum ...
Development Economics Lecture 1 Anne Mikkola Partly using slides of Prof. Haaparanta EXAMS (one of the following) Date: 11.12.2007: Time: 12-14 Place: Porthania II Date: 16.1.2008: Time: 12-14 Place: Economicum lecture room. Faculty exam: 1.3.2008 1 REQUIRED READINGS (preliminary) Debraj Ray(1998): Development Economics. Chapters 1-11. Lecture notes Follow the course webpage as the course proceeds: http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/blogs/mikkola/post50 ...
Development Economics By Debraj Ray, New York University March2007. PreparedfortheNewPalgraveDictionaryofEconomics,editedbyLawrence Blume and Steven Durlauf. 1 Introduction Whatweknowasthedeveloping world is approximately the group of countries classied by the World Bank as having “low” and “middle” income. An exact description is unnecessary and not too revealing; suce it to observe that these countries make up over 5 billion of world population, leaving out the ...
Development Economics Land issues - Tenancy Ray, Debraj. 1998. Development Economics, Chapter 11 and Chapter 12 (pp403-436). • Objectives of today’s lecture: To understand economic incentives behind two major forms of tenancy – fixed-rent tenancy and share cropping tenancy. • Farming needs both land and labor (among others) as inputs. 1. Large landlords have too much land relative to labor. 2. Landless farmers have ...
Notes for a Course in Development Economics Debraj Ray Version 2.3, 2001. 1 Introduction Open a book — any book —on the economics of developing countries, and it will begin with the usual litany of woes. Developing countries, notwithstanding the enormous strides they have made in the last few decades, display fundamental economic inadequacies in a wide range of indicators. Levels of physical ...
Chapter 4: The New Growth Theories References: Debraj Ray, Development Economics; Barro and Sala-i Martin, Economic Growth; David Weil, Economic Growth. Some concerns that we have so far about growth theory are: 1. The Solow model can explain only part of the differences in per capita income. The remaining differences suggest that there are non-diminishing returns to physical capital, which is hard to accept. We ...
Solutions to HW #2 Development Economics, Debraj Ray, #1, #3, #6, #8, #10 (solutions are written by the author or slightly modified) 1.a The running costs include labor ($2000 times 100) and cotton fabric, which is $600,000. Thus total costs are $800,000 per year. Total revenues are equal to price time quantity (q=100,000 and p=$10) thus revenues are $1 million. Total ...
Journal of Economic Perspectives—Volume 24, Number 3—Summer 2010—Pages 45–60 Uneven Growth: A Framework for Research in Development Economics Debraj Ray hhee tteexxttbbooookk p paarraaddiiggmm of ec of ecoonnomomyywwidide de deevveelloopmpmeennt ret reststss o onn tthhee p prreemmiisse e oof “f “bbaallaanncceedd g grroowwtthh””:: tthhaat it iss,, o onn tthhee p prreessuummppttiioonn t thhaat at allll s seeccttoorrss ...
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