Asian Economic Development
Faculty
KAWAI, Masahiro
Credit / Semester / Schedule
2 Credits / Winter Semester / Thursday Period: 5
Description
This course will provide a broad overview of various policy challenges for growth and development in Asia. It will provide diverse country, regional, and sub-regional experiences of various policy measures and implementation experience, a comparison of policies that seemed 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 migration issues to social safety nets, from financial supervision to competition policy. At the end of the course, the students are supposed to be familiar with the status of the policy discussions in the region.
The students are expected to attend all lectures, participate actively in class, write a paper on any of the suggested topics (below), and make a class presentation on the paper.
Grading
The students will be assessed as follows: 10% – attendance; 20% – contribution in class discussion; 30% – paper presentation; 40% – written paper. The term paper should be a maximum of 20 pages (1.5 space, 12 pt, ) to be submitted after the last lecture.