Issues in Economic Development

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This course explores current issues in economic development including poverty and poverty alleviation, strategies to overcome poverty and underdevelopment including microfinance, the roles of multilateral financial institutions, globalization, and the Washington Consensus. The course will also explore the roles of regional arrangements and development institutions in attempts to overcome underdevelopment. The theoretical underpinning of the course lies in the many schools of thought that have produced explanations of the causes and consequences of development and underdevelopment. The course attempts to plot strategies to achieve goals of economic development.