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From Poverty to Prosperity: Understanding Economic Development
Intermediate
Online
6 Weeks
Free Quick Facts
| Medium Of Instructions | Mode Of Learning | Mode Of Delivery |
|---|---|---|
| English | Self Study | Video and Text Based |
Courses and Certificate Fees
| Fees Informations | Certificate Availability | Certificate Providing Authority |
|---|---|---|
| INR 20902 | yes | Oxford University |
The Syllabus
- Economic development needs polities that are centralised and inclusive.
- No society starts with such a polity. Starting from anarchy, what determines whether a centralised state emerges?
- Economic development needs polities that are centralised and inclusive.
- No society starts with such a polity. What are the factors that develop a centralised state into an inclusive one?
- Economic development needs an alignment between power and identities.
- What happens when power and identities are misaligned and how can that misalignment be addressed?
- Economic development depends upon exploiting scale and specialisation,
- but poor societies start with neither. How can government policies promote or inhibit the exploitation of scale and specialisation?
- The political, social and economic processes covered in previous modules are fundamentally internal.
- External influences are peripheral but may still matter, for good or ill.
- The details of the final assignment and instructions on how to complete it will be available in this module.
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