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Bachelor of Science (BSc)

BSc Global Development

Learn about the social, economic and environmental challenges faced by the Global South and help drive forward social justice for all.
  • Duration: 3 years
  • Year of entry: 2025
  • UCAS course code: L905 / Institution code: M20
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Fees and funding

Fees

Tuition fees for home students commencing their studies in September 2025 will be £9,535 per annum (subject to Parliamentary approval). Tuition fees for international students will be £29,000 per annum. For general information please see the undergraduate finance pages.

Policy on additional costs

All students should normally be able to complete their programme of study without incurring additional study costs over and above the tuition fee for that programme. Any unavoidable additional compulsory costs totalling more than 1% of the annual home undergraduate fee per annum, regardless of whether the programme in question is undergraduate or postgraduate taught, will be made clear to you at the point of application. Further information can be found in the University's Policy on additional costs incurred by students on undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes (PDF document, 91KB).

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Course unit details:
Development Macroeconomics

Course unit fact file
Unit code MGDI20272
Credit rating 20
Unit level Level 2
Teaching period(s) Semester 2
Available as a free choice unit? No

Overview

Macroeconomics concerns the functioning of the economy as a whole. Usually “the economy” is understood as that of a nation state, but ideas in macroeconomics can also be applied to smaller units (for example, an Indian state) or to larger ones (for example, the West African Economic and Monetary Union). There is also a macroeconomic element to the study of economic connections between nation states. Many macroeconomic concepts are applicable both to the Global North and to the Global South, but this course unit focuses on the application of these concepts to the South. 

Pre/co-requisites

Unit title Unit code Requirement type Description
Development Microeconomics MGDI20261 Co-Requisite Compulsory

Aims

The unit aims to provide students with a grounding in macroeconomic theory and its application to developing countries, equipping them to combine theory and data to analyse macroeconomic policy questions.

Syllabus

Week 1: Economic growth in the theory of Smith and Lewis

Week 2: The Neoclassical growth model

Week 3: Some things missing from the Neoclassical model

Week 4: Evidence on the determinants of economic growth

Week 5: Analysing growth policies

Week 6: An integrated short-run model of output, employment, prices and exchange rates (1)

Week 7: Guest Lecture 

Week 8: Non-Neoclassical theories of growth (1) 

Week 9: Non-Neoclassical theories of growth (2)

Week 10: Macroeconomic stabilization policy – theory and evidence (1)

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching and learning will be based on lectures (twice per week) and tutorials (once per week). Lectures will combine presentation of the learning material with some interactive discussion. Reading lists, lecture slides and tutorial questions will be posted on the VLE. Tutorials will provide students with the opportunity to engage critically with the learning material through group discussions and presentations. Advice on how to prepare for each tutorial will be posted on the VLE.

Knowledge and understanding

  • Distinguish between different theories of long-run economic growth
  • Describe how economic theory can be used to explain variation in output, employment and prices

Intellectual skills

  • Evaluate the predictions of a macroeconomic model using appropriate data sources
  • Compare the characteristics of different macroeconomic models
  • Critically analyse macroeconomic policy choices using appropriate theory and data

Practical skills

Find, interpret and correctly reference published research

Present and analyse alternative arguments involving theory and evidence

Manage datasets using Excel and 'R'

Transferable skills and personal qualities

  • Develop a critical and analytical argument, making use of appropriate evidence
  • Communicate ideas in writing in a form appropriate for the academic community and the policy-making community

Assessment methods

Method Weight
Other 50%
Written exam 50%

First draft of a written assignment based on analysis of a macro-economic dataset (minus Introduction and Conclusion) (1,000 words) (Formative)

(Students will revise their draft assignments for summative assessment.)

  • Second draft of a written assignment based on analysis of a macroeconomic dataset. (1,500 words) (50%)

 

Feedback methods

Written comments via the VLE.

Recommended reading

Pierre-Richard Agénor and Peter J. Montiel (2015) Development Macroeconomics (4th edition), Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ.

Nancy Birdsall (1988) "Economic approaches to population growth," Handbook of Development Economics 1: 477-542.

W. Arthur Lewis (2007) The Theory of Economic Growth, Routledge: London, UK.

Gérard Roland (2016) Development Economics, Routledge: London, UK.

Eduardo Levy Yeyati and Federico Sturzenegger (2010) “Monetary and exchange rate policies,” Handbook of Development Economics 5: 4215-4281.

Study hours

Scheduled activity hours
Lectures 20
Tutorials 10
Independent study hours
Independent study 170

Teaching staff

Staff member Role
Adam Aboobaker Unit coordinator

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