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UNDERGRADUATE

ECON 305: Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory
The determinants of aggregate income, employment, and inflation; economic fluctuations; fiscal and monetary policy; financial markets; the national debt.
Prerequisite: ECON 203 and ECON 205; MATH 118x or MATH 125.
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ECON 340: Economics of Less Developed Countries
Causes of economic under-development; historical, institutional, structural, ideological, technological, cultural. Patterns and theories of development. Role of government, international trade, and education in economic growth.
Prerequisite: ECON 203 or ECON 205.
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ECON 342: Economic Development of the Middle East
Historical and comparative analysis of economies of Middle East countries: institutions, resources, trade, finance, fiscal policy, income distribution, population, and migration.
Prerequisite: ECON 203 but preferably also with 205 and 303.
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GRADUATE

ECON 541: Economic Development
Development, under-development and the problems thereof; agriculture, industry, trade, population, human capital, capital formation; structural, technological, environmental and institutional changes; political economy of the state.
Prerequisite: ECON 303 and ECON 305 or departmental approval.
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ECON 644: Economic Development Programming and Policy Planning
Model construction and application of policy and planning; open economy, Dutch disease, input-output, programming, computable general equilibrium, benefit-cost, sustainability, policy reforms and political economy.
Prerequisite: ECON 501 or ECON 505.
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ECON 692: Seminar in Economic Development
Current research in international, regional, and urban development economics presented by faculty, students and outside scholars.
Prerequisite: Departmental approval.
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