Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, you should be able to:

• Distinguish the structural features of developed and developing economies
• Explain basic concepts of economic growth and development
• Summarize the structural adjustment prescriptions of the World Bank
• Discuss the discontent in globalization from the Global North-South divide
• Describe the paradigms in the international poverty discourse
• Identify the summary findings of the 1990 Human Development Report
• Indicate various indices of economic development
• Recall the six characteristics of modern economic growth
• Outline various theories of economic development