Economics 249SE - South Asian Economic Devel.

The overarching theme is partnerships for development including public-private, public-civil society and foreign-national. The initiatives include harnessing social capital for rural development, micro-credit, and producer cooperatives; industrial clusters and export promotion; devolution for service delivery, forest management and employment guaranteed schemes; containing population growth; attaining human development; economics of happiness; tourism; value-chains and garment exports. The course will end with a class debate pertaining to Indian economic performance. The format will be lectures on background followed by seminar style class discussions based on assigned readings.

Prereq: Economics 103, Economics 104, or Economics 110.