Program of the PhD-Course of the German-Ghanaian Centre for
Development Studies
WEEK 1 Economic and Social Change Theories
Date/Time
9:30-10:30
11: 00 -12:30
20-01-09
21-01-09
22-01-09
23-01-09
Introduction to
Development
Economics
19-01-09
Economic Change
Theories
Measurement of
Economic Growth
Aid and Economic
Growth
Trade and
Industrial
Development
Dr. Peter Quartey
Dr. Robert Osei
Dr. Peter Quartey
Dr. Peter Quartey
Dr. Charles Ackah
Introduction to
Economic
Development
Economic Change
Theories
Measurement of
Growth
Trade and
Industrial
Development
Globalization and
Industrial
Development
Dr. Peter Quartey
Dr. Robert Osei
Dr. Peter Quartey
Dr. Charles Ackah
Dr. Charles Ackah
Theories of Change
Planned Social
Change
Theories of
Change
Planned Social
Change
Health Belief
Module
Dr. Ellen Aryeetey
Dr. Elizabeth
Asante
Behaviour Change
Communication
14:00 -15:00
15:30 -16:30
Dr. Ellen Aryeetey
Dr. Elizabeth
Asante
Dr. Gertrude
Owusu
Dr. Gertrude
Owusu
WEEK 2 Governance and Institutions
Date/Time
26-01-09
27-01-09
Definitions
of
Good and Bad
9.00-10.30
Governance
Governance
(Reading)
Dr. Kuzmits
Good Enough
Governance
28-01-09
29-01-09
30-01-09
Local
Governance
Discussion: Use
of Governance
Indicators
Dr. Kuzmits
Discussion: Use
and abuse of
conditionality
Institutional
Theories
Dr. Kuzmits
Institutional
Theories
Dr. Laube
Discussion:
Land
management
institutions in
Ghana
Dr. Laube, Prof.
Diabey-Pentzlin,
Prof. Ayee
Reforming
Institutions for
Development
11.00-12.30
Dr. Kuzmits
History of
Governance and
Development
14.00-15.00
Dr. Kuzmits
Good and Bad
Governance
Dr. Kuzmits
Global and
Regional
Governance
Dr. Kuzmits
Dr. Kuzmits
Dr. Kuzmits
Governance
Indicators:
practical
example (BTI)
Dr. Kuzmits
Challenges of
Governance in
Africa
Governance and
Democracy
Governance
Indicators
Prof. Ayee
Prof. Ayee
15.30-16.30
WEEK 3 Poverty and Equity
Date
02-02-09
9:30-10:30
Poverty and Inequality
Dr. Peter Quartey
03-02-09
Dr. Kuzmits
Governance
Indices
Prof. Ayee
04-02-09
Income
Distribution and
Social
Transformation
Income
Distribution and
Social
Transformation
Dr. Peter Quartey
Dr. Peter Quartey
Dr. Laube
Dr. Laube
Institutions and
natural resource
management
FREE
Prof. Ayee
05-02-09
06-02-09
Exercises
Exercises
Dr. Peter Quartey
Dr. Peter Quartey
1
11: 00 -12:30
Poverty and Inequality
14:00 -15:00
Dr. Peter Quartey
Globalisation and the
World
15:30 -16:30
Dr. Elizabeth Asante
Income
Distribution and
Social
Transformation
Dr. Peter Quartey
Poverty Reduction
Strategy
Dr.ElizabethAsante
Income
Distribution and
Social
Transformation
Dr. Peter Quartey
Alternative
Approaches to
Development
Exercises
Exercises
Dr. Peter Quartey
Dr. Peter Quartey
MDGs and
Globalisation
Rights Based
Approach
Dr.Anyidoho
Dr. Nana Akua
Anyidoho
Dr. Gertrude
Owusu
MDGs
Dr. Gertrude
Owusu
WEEK 4 Resource Use and Management (including Environment and Climate
Change/Adaptation)
Date/Time 09-02-09
10-02-09
11-02-09
12-02-09
13-02-09
9:30-10:30
Theories of PopulationEnvironment Linkages
I
11: 00 -12:30
Dr. Samuel N. C odjoe
Population, Migration
and the Environment I
Theories of
PopulationEnvironment
Linkages I
Environmental
Valuation
Techniques
Dr. Samuel N. Codjoe
Dr. Dan Twerefou
Population and Food
Nexus
Climatic Change
and Development
Dr. Samuel N.
Codhjoe
Dr. Samuel N
Codjoe
14:00 -15:00
15:30 -16:30
Prof. J. K. Anarfi
WEEK 5 Quantitative Analysis
Date/Time
16-02-09
17-02-09
Prof. J. K. Anarfi
Population,
Migration and the
Environment II
Prof. J. K. Anarfi
Dr. George Owusu
18-02-09
19-02-09
20-02-09
Questionnaire
Preparation
Survey Design
Quantitative
Analysis
Quantitative
Analysis
Dr. I. Baidoo
Benjamin
Schraven
Benjamin Schraven
E,N,N, Nortey
E,N,N, Nortey
24-02-09
25-02-09
26-02-09
27-02-09
SPSS
SPSS
SPSS
Benjamin Schraven
Dr. I. Baidoo
Dr. I. Baidoo
14:00 -15:00
15:30 -16:30
WEEK 6
Quantitative Analysis
23-02-09
Date/Time
9:30-10:30
Dr. Dan Twerefou
Land Access and
Use in Peri-Urban
Accra: A Political
Economy
Perspective
Population,
Migration and the
Environment I
Sampling Techniques
9:30-10:30
11: 00 -12:30
Environmental
Policy
Instrument/Interna
tional
Environmental
externalities
11: 00 -12:30
Quantitative
Analysis
Quantitative
Analysis
14:00 -15:00
15:30 -16:30
E,N,N, Nortey
Prof. Ahiadeke
WEEK 7
Date/Time
Quantitative Analysis
02-03-09
03-03-09
04-03-09
05-03-09
06-03-09
9:30-10:30
SPSS
SPSS
SPSS
SPSS
Holiday
Dr. I. Baidoo
Dr. I. Baidoo
Dr. I. Baidoo
Dr. I. Baidoo
11: 00 -12:30
14:00 -15:00
15:30 -16:30
WEEK 8 Qualitative Research Methods and Econometrics
Date/Time
09-03-09
10-03-09
9:30-10:30
Introduction ,
Interview
Brainstorming
Techniques
qualitative Research
11-03-09
Qualitative
Research
Approaches
12-03-09
PRA
13-03-09
Linear and
Diagnostic
Regressions
2
Prof. Anarfi
Gender
Analysis
Dr. Waibel
11: 00 -12:30
Social construction
of reality
Dr. Laube
14:00 -15:00
Introduction
qualitative methods
Dr. Laube
15:30 -16:30
Reading Exercise
and Discussion:
Triangulation
Dr. Waibel
Interview
techniques
Dr. Waibel
Gender
Analysis
Dr. Youkhana
PRA
Dr. Bhaduri
How to use
STATS
Dr. Waibel/ Prof.
Anarfi
Interview
techniques
Dr. Waibel
Dr. Youkhana
Dr. Bhaduri
Participant
Observation and
Oral History
PRA
How to use
STATA
Dr. Waibel/ Prof.
Anarfi
Focus group
discussion
Dr. Laube
Dr. Youkhana
PRA
Dr. Bhaduri
STATA
Exercises
Dr. Youkhana
Dr. Bhaduri
19-03-09
Linear
Programming:
Introduction and
General
Formulation
20-03-09
Graphical
Solution,
Simplex
Method, and
software like
GAMS
Management of
qualitative data
Introduction ‘Topic
guide’
Dr. Waibel
Dr. Waibel/ Prof.
Anarfi
WEEK 9 Qualitative Research Methods and Econometrics
16-03-09
17-03-09
Date/Time
9:30-10:30
Resource Economics GLOWA
Basic Concepts
Workshop
Dr. Bhaduri,
Discussion
‘Topic guide’
‘Training in
Hydro-Economic
Modelling’
Dr. Laube
18-03-09
GLOWA
Workshop
‘Training in
Hydro-Economic
Modelling’
N. Perez
11: 00 -12:30
How to solve
resource economics
optimization
problems in EXCEL
Linear
Programming:
Duality and
Economic
Application
Dr. Bhaduri
14:00 -15:00
EXCEL Exercises
15:30 -16:30
Dr. Bhaduri
EXCEL Exercises
N. Perez
Non-Linear
Programming:
Introduction and
Economic
Application
N. Perez
GAMS
Exercises: Feed
formulation,
farm crop-mix
and transport
models
N. Perez
GAMS Exercise:
An Agricultural
Sector Model
N. Perez
Dr. Bhaduri
WEEK 10 Skills for Research and Project Management
23-03-09
24-03-09
Date/Time
25-03-09
N. Perez
Application to
Agriculture and
Water Resource
Allocation
GAMS Exercise:
Water
Allocation
Model
N. Perez
N. Perez
26-03-09
27-03-09
3
9:30-10:30
Proposal writing and
Fund raising
Research
Methodology
Report writing
Report writing
Project planning,
monitoring and
evaluation
Prof. E. Aryeetey
Prof. C.
Ahiadeke
Dr. Nyanteng
Dr. Nyanteng
Dr. G.A. Owusu
FREE
FREE
Visit to GTZ
Office
Visit to German
Embassy
Visit to DAAD
Office
11: 00 -12:30
14:00 -15:00
15:30 -16:30
Date
WEEK 11
30/03/09 – 03/04/09
Individual office work at ISSER
Date
06/04/09 – 10/04/09
Week 12
Individual office work at ISSER
03/04/09 – 17/04/09
Date
Week 13
Date
Week 14-17
Date
Week 18-23
Date
Week 24-26
Individual office work at ISSER
20/04/09 – 22/04/09
Individual office work at ISSER and Intensive German Language Course
25/05/09 – 03/07/09 (Research Visit at ZEF in Bonn, Germany)
Draft proposal workshop; Individual office work at ZEF; Presentation of revised proposal;
Attendance of ZEF research groups and lectures; Visiting German Development Institutions
06/07/09 – 30/07/09
Individual office work at ISSER, Oral proposal examination at ISSER.
ISSER staff, supervisors
FIELD RESEARCH
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