AGEC 7110
Economic Development II
3 Credit Hours

Goal:

The course is intended to provide graduate students an exposure to recent literature and practices in agricultural economic development. Students, at the completion of the course, will have a conceptual framework of the process and stages of economic development.

Methodology:

The courses will be administered in the form of lectures, readings and assignments. A number of meetings will be arranged throughout the 15 weeks. Students will be given two exams on lectures and assigned readings. Students are required to review four journal articles which must be orally presented to the class. The journal articles must be current and related to development issues. A summary of the presentation must be typed and handed to the instructor a week before the presentation. A final term paper will be assigned.

Prerequisites:

None

Grading:

The grades will come from the following:



Class Activities	Score
Exam I	30 %
Exam II	30 %
Term Paper	30 %
Review of Articles	10 %
Total score	100 %

Main Text:

Hayami, Y. and V. W. Ruttan. 1985. Agricultural Development: An International Perspective, John Hopkins, Baltimore.

Other Text:

Todaro M. P. 1989. Economic Development in the Third World, Longman, New York.

Timmer, P. C. 1986. Getting Prices Right: The scope and Limits of Agricultural Policy, Ithaca, Cornell University Press.

Streeten, P. 1987. What Price Food? Agricultural Price Polices in Developing Countries, Ithaca, Cornell University Press.

Ellis, F. 1990. Peasant Economics: Farm household and agrarian development, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press..

Topics To Be Studied:

1. Week Economic development as a discipline
2. Week The nature of Economic development
3. Week Leading theories of economic development
4. Week Agriculture as the backbone of economic development
5. Week Markets and economic development
6. Week Technological change and technology transfer
7. Week The theory of peasant economics
8. Week Special topics
   1. Agricultural Policy and Institutions
   2. Agricultural Lending
9. Week Financing Development
10. Week Role of Women in Agriculture
11. Week Farming Systems Research
12. Week Structural Adjustment and Economic Development
13. Week Presentation of Journal Articles

Students with Special Needs: Any student needing special accommodations is encouraged to notify the instructor and contact the Director, Program for Students with Disabilities, 1244 Haley Center.

 

AGEC 7110 Class Sylabus