Aid and Development Policy

The course will introduce students to analysis and debates on overseas development assistance and other policy tools that rich countries can use to seek to promote economic development in poorer countries. The main focus will be aid policy. Other policies and institutions to be analysed include migration policy, trade policy, intellectual property rights, peacekeeping and military interventions, climate change policies, and the global development architecture. The course will utilise economic methodologies and evidence bases including cross-country regressions, organisational theory, principal-agent models, game theory, growth models, public finance, case studies, and the results of household surveys.