This course basically deals with politics and political economy of development and development dynamism in Ethiopia both from historical and institutional approaches before 1991 and post-1991 Ethiopia via the political economy of development by way of critically assessing and address to central questions of what, why, how, with what resources, and for whom, and development policies, strategies, and program in tune with the performance, achievements, challenging problems, limitations, key gaps, and opportunities, as well as their successive end implications in light of change and continuities of the country.