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Advanced Development Economics
This course is designed for students who have completed the first Development Economics graduate course in this department. It builds on the first course by :
- providing a wider set of readings, with less of a South African focus (e.g. Sen's approach to poverty)
- dealing with selected, more focused issues in development research (e.g. an institutional perspective on economic development)
- further developing technical skills for empirical development research
The desired outcomes from this course are
- a deepened understanding of the development process and different approaches to development
- an improved ability to read and interpret advanced readings in development economics
- developing empirical research skills in the development field.
Course instructor: Servaas van der Berg, Ronelle Burger and Marisa von Fintel
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BER Weekly
19 April 2021Last week’s data releases for SA and in particular the US bode well for the GDP growth outlook in 2021. In SA, the incoming data for 2021Q1 suggests that the GDP recovery continued in the first three months of the year, albeit that the growth momentum likely softened further. Nevertheless, relative to the start of the year when we expected a negative...
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BER Weekly
19 April 2021Last week’s data releases for SA and in particular the US bode well for the GDP growth outlook in 2021. In SA, the incoming data for 2021Q1 suggests that the GDP recovery continued in the first three months of the year, albeit that the growth momentum likely softened further. Nevertheless, relative to the start of the year when we expected a negative...
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