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EC938 Trade and Development

Course Supervisor

Dr Carmen A. Li
Email:carma@essex.ac.uk
Room 5B 311
Office Hours:
Autumn Term: Thursday 2pm-4pm
Summer Term: To be announced
EC938 lectures: Autumn Term, Thursday 11am- 1pm in Room 5N.4.7

EC938 Module Materials

  • Online module directory entry for EC938
  • Module Outline

    Lecture Notes
    Topic 1: Trade, Growth, Inequality and Poverty

  • Trade, growth and productivity (lectures1,2,3): part 1 and part 2
  • Trade and wage inequality (lecture 4)
  • Trade and poverty (lecture 5)
    Topic 2: Foreign Aid and Development
  • Aid effectiveness, donor motivation and aid coordination (lecture 6)
  • Aid effectiveness and the recipient countries (lectures 7, 8): part 1 and part 2
    Topic 3: Private Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries
  • Effects of FDI on growth in developing countries (lectures 9,10)

    Formative Assessment
    Submit to Lorna Woollcott (5B.208) no later than 12:00 noon Thursday 15 December 2011

  • Questions

    Term Paper
    Deadline: 12:00 noon Friday 20 January 2012

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    Revision

  • Revision Lecture
  • Link to past examination question papers for EC938 (University username and password required).

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