Università Roma Tre

Macroeconomics and development
The course addresses a number of macroeconomic issues with a focus on development and growth, income distribution, institutions, and the growth-inequality-poverty nexus.

The module will typically cover the following topics:
• Introduction: principal macroeconomic issues of development
• Economic growth: Growth models as tools for analyzing the macroeconomics of development
• Stages of Growth
• Macroeconomic stability and growth in developing countries
• Geography, Culture and Institutions
• Income distribution and Macroeconomics
• Inequality, growth and welfare policy

D Acemoglu (2009) Introduction to modern economic growth, Princeton University Press, capitoli 1-4.

2.C. Jones, The facts of economic growth, cap 2 in Handbook of Macroeconomics, vol2A.

3.SLIDES AND PAPERS PROVIDED DURING LESSONS.