Growth in the Developing Countries, Emerging Economies and the Global Economy

This course deals with growth, or slightly more broadly with growth patterns. It starts with developing country growth, a distinctive features of the post WWII global order. The economics, the policies and the political economy for growth and development will be addressed. We then turn to the so-called emerging economies and the middle to high income transitions that are underway in a wide range of countries. The course then shifts to more general characteristics and issues associated with growth patterns, including in developed economies: specifically distribution or inequality, major technological changes and transitions, especially the digital one currently underway, and finally sustainability, as a large fraction of the world's population converges on high income country patterns of production, consumption and energy use.