{"id":2552,"date":"2020-01-27T19:14:24","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T00:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/?p=2552"},"modified":"2020-01-28T07:35:46","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T12:35:46","slug":"online-course-development-economics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/browse-by-training\/online-course-development-economics\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Course: Development Economics"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\tMRU Online Course: “Development Economics”\r\n\t\t<\/a>\r\n\t<\/h1>\r\n

\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\tMarginal Revolution University at MRU.org\r\n\t\t<\/a>\r\n\t<\/h3>\r\n
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Style: <\/strong>Self-paced e-learning<\/p>\r\n\t

Cost: <\/strong>Free<\/p>\r\n\t

Language of Instruction: <\/strong>English<\/p>\r\n\t

Qualifications:\u00a0<\/strong>The course has no economic prerequisites, and is designed with the intention to increase access to economic thinking in the world of development.<\/p>\r\n

Without any prerequisites, this course will include a lot of review after having taken the CDE series. However, the lectures are engaging, and there are some topics you may not have had a chance to learn about while in Williamstown.<\/p>\r\n\t

Application Deadline: <\/strong>This course is always open<\/p>\r\n\t

Offered Dates: <\/strong>This course is always offered<\/p>\r\n\t

Focus:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

In this online course, Alex Tabarrok and Tyler Cowen, the contributors of the quirky and insightful blog Marginal Revolution, present a full-fledged rundown with 256 videos and exercises about everything development economics. The course is composed of videos with some practice questions and other exercises.<\/p>\r\n

Topics covered include:<\/p>\r\n

Geography and Development; Food and Agricultural Productivity; Water Economics; Economic Growth; Bottlenecks, Linkages and Intermediate Goods; Productivity of Firms; Trade; Property Rights; Corruption; Foreign Aid; Finance, Growth, and the Poor; Poverty and Behavior; Health; Education; Politics, Democracy, and War; Migration; Population and Environment<\/p>\r\n\t

Target Audience:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Anyone with an interest in economic thinking.<\/p>\r\n

 <\/p>\r\n\t

Eligibility: <\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Open to anyone with an internet connection.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\t

Of Note: <\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Videos can be downloaded and watched at a later date.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSee the course at MRU.org\r\n\t\t\t<\/a>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This course in Development Economics from Marginal Revolution surveys most of the major topics in development, including the following: Geography and Development; Food and Agricultural Productivity; Water Economics; Economic Growth; Bottlenecks, Linkages and Intermediate Goods; Productivity of Firms; Trade; Property Rights; Corruption; Foreign Aid; Finance, Growth, and the Poor; Poverty and Behavior; Health; Education; Politics, Democracy, and War; Migration; and Population and Environment. <\/p>\n

You can take the whole course, or just watch the lectures that interest you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2197,"featured_media":2429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"tpl-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[493,408,494,409,495,410,496,497,412,498,413,499,414,500,415,501,416,502,417,503,418,504,419,454,47,455,50,353,456,52,457,48,458,49,260,459,54,460,51,461,55,463,56,603,261,411,466,59,492,46,351,402],"tags":[591,568,292,599,273,593,293,122,190,185,602,113,590,598,589,115,105,595,594,601,528,592,535,550,128,596,597,168,343,600],"class_list":["post-2552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-01-session-in-january-2020","category-01-session-in-january-2020-online","category-02-session-in-february-2020","category-02-session-in-february-2020-online","category-03-session-in-march-2020","category-03-session-in-march-2020-online","category-04-session-in-april-2020","category-05-session-in-may-2020","category-05-session-in-may-2020-online","category-06-session-in-june-2020","category-06-session-in-june-2020-online","category-07-session-in-july-2020","category-07-session-in-july-2020-online","category-08-session-in-august-2020","category-08-session-in-august-2020-online","category-09-session-in-september-2020","category-09-session-in-september-2020-online","category-10-session-in-october-2020","category-10-session-in-october-2020-online","category-11-session-in-november-2020","category-11-session-in-november-2020-online","category-12-session-in-december-2020","category-12-session-in-december-2020-online","category-agriculture-and-e-learning","category-agriculture-training","category-business-and-trade-and-e-learning","category-business-and-trade-training","category-e-learning","category-education-and-e-learning","category-education-training","category-energy-and-environment-and-e-learning","category-energy-and-the-environment-training","category-finance-and-e-learning","category-finance-training","category-foreign-policy-browse-by-training-training","category-governance-institutions-and-political-economy-and-e-learning","category-governance-institutions-and-political-economy-training","category-health-and-e-learning","category-health-and-population-training","category-labor-markets-and-migration-and-e-learning","category-labor-markets-and-migration","category-macroeconomics-and-growth-and-e-learning","category-macroeconomics-and-growth","category-security-and-conflict-and-e-learning","category-security-and-conflict-browse-by-training","category-session-in-april-2020-online","category-technology-and-innovation-and-e-learning","category-technology-and-innovation","category-training-all-types-session-dates","category-browse-by-training","category-training-format-and-topics","category-training-online-session-dates","tag-agricultural-productivity","tag-agriculture","tag-aid","tag-behavior","tag-behavioral-economics","tag-bottlenecks","tag-corruption","tag-democracy","tag-e-learning","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-finance","tag-food","tag-foreign-aid","tag-geography-and-development","tag-growth","tag-health","tag-intermediate-goods","tag-linkages","tag-migration","tag-online-course","tag-online-training","tag-politics","tag-population","tag-poverty","tag-productivity-of-firms","tag-property-rights","tag-self-paced-e-learning","tag-trade","tag-war"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2552"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2683,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552\/revisions\/2683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}