ECON 470
The Indian Economy: Development and Social Justice Fall 2020
Division II
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The Indian economy has grown rapidly in the last three decades, but poverty has declined relatively slowly, malnutrition remains high, and the sex ratio remains heavily biased against women. Is this the persistence of long-standing historical disadvantages such as those faced by Scheduled Castes and Tribes? Does this reflect failures in policy, in areas such as trade, credit, or labor law? Or is the quality of governance primarily to blame? We will use the traditional theoretical and quantitative methods of an economist to consider these questions.
The Class: Format: seminar; The class will be remote, with synchronous and asynchronous elements. Lecture will be synchronous. Student presentations will be asynchronous. They will be Power-Point presentations with audio/video added. For discussion, students will submit comments ahead of time, following which further commentary will be synchronous.
Limit: 15
Expected: 15
Class#: 2419
Grading: no pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: five short response papers (5 pages), and empirical research project
Prerequisites: ECON 251 and 255, or equivalent, or permission of instructor
Enrollment Preferences: junior and senior majors
Distributions: Division II
Attributes: GBST Economic Development Studies Electives
GBST South + Southeast Asia Studies Electives
JLST Interdepartmental Electives
POEC Comparative POEC/Public Policy Courses

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