Senior fellow Arvind Subramanian has just finished teaching a course at the School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University on long run economic development. Not the recent trend toward micro-development that focuses on questions such as “will giving away free bed-...

My goal is to get students to think critically about development theory and practice. A slight majority of examples and readings will be drawn from sub-Saharan Africa, in part give the course some focus, and in part because it is my area of expertise. But in I will also bring in a considerable amoun...

This course introduces students to the relations among growth, inequality and globalization of economic markets, with a focus on implications for the developing world.

This introductory course teaches students about dominant paradigms of development and welfare, and situates such paradigms in the 20th century history of capitalism and liberal democracy.

This introductory course focuses on microeconomic dimensions of trade relations between countries.

This course is an introduction to the study of the economic circumstances and problems of low and middle-income economies.

This course presents an overview of poverty analysis and how it is applied by multilateral organizations.