Virtual University

Traditional trade strategies for development: export promotion versus import substitution (V-U)

Multidimensional Poverty Index (V-U)

Trends in the balance of payments (V-U)

Policy options in developing and developed countries (V-U)

What is development economics? (V-U)

Porter’s “competitive advantage” theory (V-U)

Why donors give aid (V-U)

Public goods and bads: regional environmental degradation and the free-rider problem (V-U)

Rural development and the environment (V-U)

1. Introduction to Macro Economics

10. The Role of Government

11. Money supply measures

12. The Fisher Effect

32. Interest-rate differentials

13. Why is inflation bad?

33. Three models of aggregate supply

14. The Classical Dichotomy

34. The sticky-price model

15. Saving and Investment in a Small Open Economy.

35. Government debt and the annual budget deficit.

16. How e is determined

36. Traditional view of govt. debt.

17. Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)

37. Keynes and the Consumption Function

18. Sectoral shifts