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ECON 314 - Economic Growth and Development

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Highlights the need and difficulty in achieving economic growth and development, particularly for low-income countries. Toward this end, the course analyzes the meanings, measurements, sources, and implications of economic growth, economic development, income inequality, and poverty; examines what role policymakers have in facilitating economic growth and development and the challenges they face; and studies several policy areas to understand the purposes, tools, and constraints of particular policies. Students will come to understand and appreciate the complexities of economic policymaking from what, at first glance, seems to flow so easily from economic theory. Prerequisite: ECON 103. Fall.