Economics 172
Issues in African Economic Development
Professor Ted Miguel
Department of Economics
University of California, Berkeley
Lecture 1: Introduction to Economics 172
• Lecturer: Prof. Ted Miguel
Email: emiguel@econ.berkeley.edu
Office hours: Mondays 9-11:30am, Evans 647
• GSIs:
John Bellows (jbellows@econ.berkeley.edu)
Jessica Leino (leino@econ.berkeley.edu)
• Enrollment issues: Desiree Schaan, GSI Coordinator
(dschaan@econ.berkeley.edu), Evans 508-2
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• Reading packets at Bancroft Copy Central
• Course structure:
Part I: Economic Theories and Issues
Part II: History, Institutions, and Politics
• Prerequisites: Some economics and some statistics
• Grading: Three problem sets – 30%
Midterm exam – 30%
Final exam – 40%
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Patterns of Global Economic Development
• The world’s four major less developed regions are East
Asia, Latin America, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa
• Of the four Sub-Saharan Africa has had by far the worst
economic performance since 1975
• The goal of this course is to understand why Africa is so
poor and what can be done about it
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• Other dimensions of human development:
Infrastructure (e.g., roads, electricity)
Democracy
Violence / armed conflict
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• For next time: Read Cooper (2002) and Kevane (2004)
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