Development Economics and policy

The course starts with the measurement and analysis of growth, poverty, and inequality. It goes through different growth models with a special emphasis on recent ones. The economic development of a country is affected by a number of factors that need a critical assessment of their degree of influence on development. As a result, due emphasis is given on the link between population, migration, education, the institution, infrastructure, aid, foreign direct investment, and economic development of a country in this course. Economic development and planning issues in Ethiopia such as types of planning models, the social accounting matrix, working with Computable General equilibrium models (CGE), and economic reforms undertaken in the country are also given room to be dealt with in the course.