发展经济学

发展经济学

学分：3学分

先修课程：宏观经济学，微观经济学

课程简介：

发展经济学深入地研究使家庭，地区和国家陷入贫困陷阱的机制，并着重研究如何能有效地突破这些陷阱。物质资本，人力资本，社会资本，制度，技术和人口等因素对经济发展起着重要的作用，而我们将在课程中探讨这些因素与经济发展之间的关系。

首先，制度代表了一系列的道德准则、习俗和法律的习惯和规则，他们相互之间保持一致，我们将分析制度对经济发展的影响。

其次，发展经济学重视资本积累的作用，比较了不同国家之间与资本积累有关的经济增长表现，分析资本的衡量方式以及不同形式的资本将如何影响经济发展。本课程将探讨人力资本是如何对经济增长发挥作用以及技术与经济发展间存在何种联系，而社会资本是如何帮助人们获得更多的职位信息和提高工作效率的。

第三，本课程将对发展中国家试图采用的影响人口规模和增长速度的一系列政策做出评价。由于城乡迁移在增加移民收入方面发挥了至关重要的作用，本模块还将探讨城乡迁移与经济发展之间的关系。

最后，我们关注了发展中国家收入分配不平等问题、贫困问题对经济增长的影响及其解决措施。

教学目标和效果：

通过本模块的学习，学生们对以下内容应有一个整体的了解：

1.经济发展着眼于哪些方面；

2.发展中国家如何摆脱贫困陷阱；

3.人力资本在经济发展中所起的作用；

4.技术进步是如何改善我们的生活方式以及提高工作效率；

5.人口增长在经济发展中所起的作用；

6.资本积累在经济发展中所起的作用；

7.制度在经济发展过程中发挥了怎样的作用；

8.社会资本在经济发展中所起的作用；

9.发展中国家应采取哪些政策来解决失业问题；

10.发展中国家应采取什么措施来减少贫困。

考核方式：

课程成绩由以下几个部分的成绩加权汇总得到：

（1）在课堂上展示PPT（40%）

（2）期末考试（40%）

（3）十页的课程论文（20%）

出勤率构成了平时成绩的一部分。

论文和考试旨在帮助学生掌握全面评估发展经济学议题的技能，建议同学们在课前阅读指定的材料。

课程教材：

1.Durlauf, Steven N. and Marcel Fafchamps (2004): “Social Capital”, working paper.

2.E. Wayne Nafziger (2006): Economic Development, 4th edition, Cambridge University Press.

3.Foster, Andrew and Mark Rosenzweig (1995): “Learning by Doing and Learning from Others: Human Capital and Technical Change in Agriculture”, Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 103(6), pp. 1176-1209.

4.Greif, Avner and Guido Tabellini (2010): “Cultural and Institutional Bifurcation: China and Europe Compared”, American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings 100: 135-140.

5.Kremer, M. (1993): “Population Growth and Technological Change: One Million B.C. to 1990”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 108 (3), pp. 681-716.

6.Michael P. Todaro and Stephen C. Smith (2010), Economic development.

7.Nunn, Nathan (2009): “The Importance of History for Economic Development”, The Annual Review of Economics, 1:65–92.

8.The Wealth of Nations, Oxford University Press.

9.World Bank, World Development Report,

http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/EXTWDRS/0,,contentMDK:20227703~pagePK:478093~piPK:477627~theSitePK:477624,00.html

10.Yujiro Hayami and Yoshihisa Godo (2005): Development Economics: From the Poverty to the Wealth of Nations, Oxford University Press.

Development Economics

Credits: 3 credits

Pre-requisite: Macroeconomics, Microeconomics

Module Description：

Development economics focuses deeply on the mechanism getting families, regions and countries stuck in the poverty trap, and it focuses on how to break these traps effectively. Human capital, social capital, physical capital, institutions, technology and population play an important part in the economic development, and the relationship between these factors and economic development will be explored.

First, Institution is a set of habits and rules of morals, custom and law, which constitutes a system, and the course will explore its impact on economic development.

Second, the importance of capital accumulation has been highlighted in the development economics. With economic growth performances compared across countries, the course will analyze the measurement of capital and how different forms of capital affect economy.

Third, the course will concentrate on how human capital acts on economic growth and what links between technology and economic development. After that, the course will analyze what influence social capital will cause on economic development and how social capital can help people to get more job information, and improve work efficiency.

At last, more attention will be paid on the economic influence of income distribution inequality，poverty and what can be down to alleviate it.

Learning Outcome and Objectives：

By the end of module, students should have a general idea of

1.what economic development focuses on

2.how the developing countries can get rid of poverty trap

3.the role that institutions play in economic life

4.the role that capital accumulation plays in economic life

5.the role that population growth plays in economic development

6.the role that human capital plays in economic development

7.how technology change our lifestyle and improve work efficiency.

8.the role that social capital plays in economic development

Assessment：

The course grade will be based on the following, with weights in parentheses:

In-class Presentation (40%)

Final examination (40%)

Ten-page paper (20%)

Attendance at class is a required element of this module.

The assigned paper and examinations have been designed to provide students with complimentary (but not identical) skills for evaluating development issues. Students will be expected to have read the required readings before class.

Textbook and reference：

1.Durlauf, Steven N. and Marcel Fafchamps: “Social Capital”, working paper, 2004.

2.E. Wayne Nafziger: Economic Development (4th edition), Cambridge University Press, 2006.