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Development Economics - II

By MANAS RANJAN BHOWMIK   |   Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira
Learners enrolled: 262

The CC-14 Development Economics II is the second course on development. It begins with basic demographic concepts and their evolution during the process of development. The structure of markets and contracts is linked to the particular problems of is linked to the particular problems of enforcement experienced in poor countries. The governance of communities and organizations is studied and this is then linked to questions of sustainable growth. The course ends with reflections on the role of globalization and increased international dependence on the process of development.

Summary
Course Status : Upcoming
Course Type : Core
Language for course content : English
Duration : 15 weeks
Category :
  • Economics
Credit Points : 5
Level : Undergraduate
Start Date : 06 Jan 2025
End Date : 30 Apr 2025
Enrollment Ends : 28 Feb 2025
Exam Date : 18 May 2025 IST
NCrF Level   : 5.5
Exam Shift: :

I

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.


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Course layout

Week

Module No.

Title of Modules

1

1

Demographic Concepts

2

Age Structure (Part 1)

3

Age Structure (Part 2)

2

 

4

Age Structure (Part 3)

5

Demographic Transition (Part 1)

6

Demographic Transition (Part 2)

3

 

7

Gender Bias (Part 1)

8

Gender Bias (Part 2)

9

Gender and Unequal Treatment (Part 1)

 

4

10

Gender and Unequal Treatment (Part 2)

11

Connections between income, mortality, fertility choices; Human capital

12

Migration

 

5

13

The distribution of land ownership

14

Land reform and its effects on productivity (Part 1)

15

Land reform and its effects on productivity (Part 2)

 

 

6

16

Land Rental Contracts (Part 1)

17

Land Rental Contracts (Part 2)

18

Nutrition and labour productivity (part 1)

19

Nutrition and labour productivity (part 2)

 

 

7

20

Nutrition and labour productivity (part 3)

21

Rural Credit Market (Part 1)

22

Rural Credit Market (Part 2)

23

Rural Credit Market (Part 3)

 

 

8

24

Microfinance

25

Inter- linkages between rural factor markets

26

Environment and Sustainable Development

27

Defining sustainability for renewable resources

 

 

9

28

Common-pool resources (part 1)

29

Common pool resources (part 2)

30

A brief history of environmental change (Part 1)

31

A brief history of environmental change (Part 2)

 

 10 

32

Environmental externalities (Part 1)

33

Environmental externalities (Part 2)

34

State regulation of the environment (part 1)

35

State regulation of the environment (part 2)

 

11 

36

Economic activity and climate change (part 1)

37

Economic activity and climate change (part 2)

38

Economy and Environment - 1

39

Economy and Environment - 2

 

12

 

40

Globalisation in historical perspective (part 1)

41

Globalisation in historical perspective (part 2)

42

Globalisation in historical perspective (part 3)

43

Economics and Politics of Multilateral Trade (Part – I)

 

13

 

44

Economics and Politics of Multilateral Trade (Part – 2)

45

Economics and Politics of Multilateral Trade (Part – 3)

46

Trade, production patterns and world inequality (part 1)

47

Trade, production patterns and world inequality (part 2)

 

14

48

Trade, production patterns and world inequality (part 3)

49

Trade, production patterns and world inequality (part 4)

50

Financial instability in a globalised world (part 1)

 

15

51

Financial instability in a globalised world (part 2)

52

Financial instability in a globalised world (part 3)

53

Financial instability in a globalised world (part 4)


Books and references

1. D. Ray: Development Economics, Princeton University Press (1998)
2. Todaro, M. and Smith, SC: Economic Development, Pearson (2015, 12th edition) 
3. A. Banerjee, R. Benabou, D. Mookerjee (eds.): Understanding Poverty, Oxford University Press (2006) 
4. “The Economics of Fertility: A New Era,” Matthias Doepke, Anne Hannusch, Fabian Kindermann, and Michèle Tertilt, April 2022, NBER Working Paper No. 29948
5. Rodrik, D. (2011). The Globalization Paradox: Why Global Markets, States, and Democracy Can't Coexist. Oxford University Press.


Instructor bio

MANAS RANJAN BHOWMIK

Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira

Manas Ranjan Bhowmik has completed his M.Phil from University of Hyderabad. He is finishing his PhD from University of Calcutta. He is presently working for many years in the Economics Department of the Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira college. He has more than eight years of teaching experience. He has received visiting foreign fellowship twice, one for Hong Kong and one for Paris from the Institute for New Economic Thinking. He has presented many papers in various international and national conferences. He has organized two high profile international conferences and many national and regional conferences, seminars and workshop. He has given many invited lectures as a resource person. He has published many papers in reputed international journals and he has written many book chapters in high quality books.

Course certificate

Passing Marks : 30% for In Course Assessment & 70% of end-term Proctored Exam.
(Securing 40% in both separately is mandatory to pass the course and to get the certificate.)



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