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1. MATTU UNIVERSITY BEDELE CAMPUS SCHOOL OF COMMERCE Department of Economics Course Title: Development Economics II Course Code: Econ 2072 Lecture Topics 1.Population Implications Growth and Economic of Women’s Development Education for Development 1.1 The Basic Issue: Population Growth and Fertility and the Quality of Life 1.6The Consequences of High fertility: 1.2 Trends of population growth and age Some Conflicting Opinions structure 1.6.1 Population Growth is Not a 1.3 The Hidden Momentum of Population Real Problem Growth 1.6.2 Population Growth is a Rea l 1.4 The Demographic Transition Problem 1.5The Causes of High Fertility in 1.6.3 Other Empirical Arguments: Developing Countries: The Malthusian Seven Negative Consequences and Household Models of Population Growth 1.5.1 The Malthusian Population Trap 2.Human Capital: Education and Health in 1.5.2 The Microeconomic Household Economic Development Theory of Fertility 2.1Education and health in developing The Demand for Children in countries 2.2Investing in Education and Health: The Developing Countries Human Capital Approach

2. 2.3Improving Health and Education: Why 4.2The Structure of Agrarian systems in the Increasing Income Is Not Sufficient? Developing World 2.4Educational Systems and Development 4.3The Important Role of Women in Educational Agriculture Supply and 4.4The Economics of Agricultural Demand: The Relationship Development between Employment Special features of agriculture Opportunities and Educational The contribution of agriculture to Demands Social versus Private Benefits development Constraints and Costs of agricultural Education, Inequality, and productivity Agricultural strategies and the role Poverty 2.5Health Systems and Development of the government in the 2.6The Gender Gap: Women and Education agricultural sector 2.7Consequences of Gender Bias in Health 5.International trade and economic and Education development: the trade policy debate and 2.8Policies for Health, Education, and Income Industrialization Generation 5.1Role of foreign trade in development 3.Rural-urban interaction, migration, and 5.2Terms of trade unemployment 5.3The trade policy debate: Export promotion 3.1Migration and urbanization dilemma industrialization versus Import substitution 3.2The Role of Cities and urban Giantism Industrialization 3.3Urban informal sector and urban 5.4Balance of Payments and Macroeconomic unemployment Stabilization 3.4Economic model of Rural-Urban Migration 6.Foreign aid, debt, financial reform and The Lewis model development 6.1Motivations for foreign aid The Harris-Todaro model of Migration 6.2Foreign debt 3.5 Comprehensive strategies for employment 6.3Foreign direct investment and MNCs and migration 6.4Financial reform 4.Agriculture and Economic Development 4.1 Agricultural Progress and Rural Development

3. Course Delivery Methods The delivery method shall be student-centered. Students are highly expected to participate in class works at the middle and end of each session and in group discussions inside and outside of the class. Specifically the course will be delivered through the following methods: Lecture Method In-class problem solving Group Work Assignment Assessment Methods Student evaluation in this Course consist both formative and summative assessments including quizzes, test and final exam. Marks will be allocated according to the following grading schedule. Assessment methods Weight Assignment (Indiv/group) 20% Quizzes 10% Mid-exam 30% Final Exam 40 % Total 100% References 1. Todaro, M.,(1994)Economic Development, Fifth editions, Longman: New York and London. 2. TodaroM.P. & SmithS.C. (2012) Development Economics, eleventh edition, Harlow, Pearson & Addison Wesley: London. 3. Ray, D.(1998) Development Economics, Princeton University Press. 4. Gillis, Dwight H. Perkins, Michael R., Donald R. and Snodgrass, W.W. (1996) Economics of Development, Malcolm. Norton &Company. 5. Meier, Gerald, M. And James E. Rauch(2000)Leading Issues in Economic Development, Seventh edition, Oxford University Press :New York and Oxford. 6. Ghatak,S.(1995)Introduction to Development Economics, Third edition, Routledge: London. 7. Basu, Kaushik (1997) Analytical Development Economics: The Less Developed Economy Revisited, The MIT Press:London. 8. Thirlwall,A.P.(2003)Growth and Development: With special reference to Developing countries, Seventh edition, Palgrave Macmillan, UK.