AAEC-6314: Topics Applied Dev Econ

Description: Economic theories and empirical methods for measuring poverty, inequality, and vulnerability, and for targeting social programs. Topics include theory of the farm household and empirical methods to measure effects of public policies, interactions between the environment and development policy, methods for measuring technical change and its impacts, effect of social networks on technology adoption, and the role of microfinance in economic development.

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Course Hours: 3 credits

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