Economics
Finance for Development
Module code: L1082
Level 5
15 credits in spring semester
Teaching method: Lecture, Seminar
Assessment modes: Coursework, Media
This module discusses and analyses the relationship between finance and development.
You'll use economic theory to help you understand the relationships between finance, economic growth, and human development. You'll learn about different schools of thought in economics, and their very different perspectives on these issues.
You'll explore various topics, analysing and critically discussing the relationship between finance and development from a macroeconomic and a microeconomic perspective.
Topics you'll study include:
- the history of the international monetary system
- development aid
- debt and equity financing
- taxation
- remittances
- climate finance
- microfinance.
Module learning outcomes
- Have demonstrated a detailed knowledge and understanding of an appropriate number of specialised fields of economics (e.g. labour economics, development economics).
- Be able to use the power of abstraction to focus upon the essential features of an economic problem and to provide a framework for the critical understanding and evaluation of the effects of policy or other exogenous events.
- Have learnt to communicate economic ideas, concepts and information across a range of topics using means of communication appropriate to the audience and the problem at issue.