This course discusses the problems of Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Middle-Income countries (especially in Africa, Asia and Latin America) and their efforts to improve the lives and well-being of their people. It incorporates different aspects of the development process including traditional development topics like economic growth; education; population studies; rural-urban migration and poverty studies as well as less traditional but equally pertinent topics like institutions; competition policy; foreign aid and corruption.

The principal objective of the course is to develop the student’s ability to master and apply the tools of economic theory and analysis to contemporary challenges in economic development.