Courses Bachelor Display 2025-2026

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Course title Economic Development
Course code EBC2201
ECTS credits 5,0
Assessment Whole/Half Grades
Period
Period Start End Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri
1 1-9-2025 17-10-2025
4 2-2-2026 27-3-2026
Level no level
Coordinator Tania Treibich
For more information: t.treibich@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Language of instruction English
Goals
Overview with respect to all aspects under "Course content"; carrying out and presenting empirical tasks. For the marble/honour groups: skills to handle growth models.
Description
This course delves into the dynamics that influence a country's progress, exploring the driving forces behind disparities between nations, the distributional impacts of development like poverty and demographic changes, and the complexities of measuring economic growth. This course provides a critical analysis of development economics in a global context.
Literature
Prerequisites
SPARK registration
Keywords
Teaching methods (indicative; course manual is definitive) PBL
Assessment methods (indicative; course manual is definitive) Assignment
Evaluation in previous academic year For the complete evaluation of this course please click "here"
This course belongs to the following programmes / specialisations
Bachelor Economics and Business Economics - Economics SPARK Elective
Bachelor Economics and Business Economics - Economics and Management of Information SPARK Elective
Bachelor Economics and Business Economics - International Business Economics SPARK Elective