Asian Economic Development and Integration
Instructors
Credits / Language / Semester
2Credits / English / Winter
Objectives/Overview
This course will provide an overview of the key factors influencing the rapid growth and development of Asian economies since the 1950s, with a focus on developments since the Asian financial crisis (1997/98). It will examine a range of policy challenges that the region has faced, and the response of various economies. The course will draw on diverse country, sub-regional, and intra-regional experience to identify policies that seem to have contributed most significantly to growth and development, examine why they “worked,” and how they might be applied in other developing economies. It will consider current policy debates on a host of “hot” topics including trade, monetary policy, regional economic integration, the environment, and financial market development and supervision. At the end of the course, students should understand the key drivers of Asian growth and development in the past 60 years and be familiar with a range of ongoing policy discussions likely to influence growth in the region moving forward.
Students are expected to attend all lectures, participate actively in class, write a paper on any of the lecture topics, and make a class presentation on the paper.
The term paper should be a maximum of 20 pages (Arial font, 1.5 space, 11 pt). A term paper proposal is due on 11 Nov. 2013. Following confirmation of topic and approach with an assigned adviser, the final paper is due on 13 Jan. 2014. (For more details on the term paper see the “Term Paper Process and Guidelines” note at the end of this document.)
Teaching Methods
Lecture, class discussion
Grading
Each student will be assessed as follows:
10% - attendance
20% - contribution to class discussion
30% - term paper presentation
40% - written term paper (individual)