check
Cohort | GLOCAL

Cohort

The International Dimension of Development

Semester: 
Yearly
Offered: 
2016

This course focuses on several major topics regarding economic development and the position of developing countries in the contemporary trading system. The course addresses the principal dimensions and measurement of "underdevelopment", principal theories of development (i.e., why some countries managed to become "developed" while the other remained underdeveloped?), the basic principles of the GATT/WTO system, the WTO special rules regarding trade with developing countries.

The course is taught by Prof. Moshe Hirsch