GraSPP
Asian Economic Development
Faculty
KAWAI, Masahiro
Credit / Semester / Schedule / Language
2 Credits / Winter / Thursday Period: 5 / English
Objectives/Overview
This course will provide a broad overview of various policy challenges for economic growth and development in Asia. It will provide diverse country, sub-regional and intra-regional experiences of various policy measures and implementation experience, a comparison of policies that seem to have ‘worked’, why they ‘worked’, and lessons for other economies. It will present current policy debates on a host of ‘hot’ topics: from monetary policy to regional economic integration, from financial supervision to approaches to social and environmental issues. At the end of the course, students are supposed to be familiar with the status of the policy discussions in the region.
Keywords
English
Teaching Methods
Lectures, class discussion, and guided research
Grading
Each student will be assessed as follows:
• 10% - attendance
• 20% - contribution to class discussion
• 30% - term paper presentation
• 40% - written term paper (individual; max. 20 pages)