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ECO 225 Development Economics

NCE2 levelSocial Sciences9 topics

ECO 225 covers 9 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Growth and development - concepts and measures (per capital income and
  2. The characteristics and causes of under development
  3. Some theories of economic growth - Rostow, Balance and unbalance growth
  4. Problems of agricultural transformation, industrialization and technological
  5. Problems of dualism
  6. Population and Economic development
  7. Foreign aids, foreign trade and Economic development
  8. The role of capital, natural and human resources in economic development
  9. Development plan and economic development - Nigeria’s experience.

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One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

Growth and development - concepts and measures (per capital income and

This topic introduces the meaning of economic growth and economic development, and the main ways they are measured in development economics. For examinations, you must clearly distinguish growth from development and understand why measures such as per capita income are useful but incomplete indicators of welfare and structural progress.

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