International cooperation and development

The course offers a general overview of the main issues related to the causes and determinants of economic development, underdevelopment, poverty analysis, causes of socio-economic inequalities, globalization patterns, with a particula attention to the analysis of poverty and its measures. At the end of the course students will be able to know the main issues of development economics and to read and understand the main documents and anlysis of national and international organization: such as World bank, IMF, OECD, EU, etc..