Desarrollo Economico

Descripción

Este curso provee una revisión de los aspectos específicos al estudio de la economía de los países de bajos y medianos ingresos. Revisaremos qué está detrás de las grandes historias de éxito, como el rápido crecimiento económico de Singapor, así como de las tragedias de desarrollo económico. Analizaremos la estructura de los países en desarrollo, sus instituciones, y las políticas que siguen sus gobiernos para incentivar el desarrollo económico.

Contenidos

1) Hechos estilizados sobre el desarrollo.

2) Crecimiento económico.

3) Instituciones y desarrollo: profecías autocumplidas y el papel de la historia.

4) La distribución del ingreso y la riqueza.

5) Mercados de crédito. 

6) Mercados de tierra y de trabajo.

7) Demografía y desarrollo económico.

8) La economía política del desarrollo

9) Desarrollo en América Latina

Tareas

Referencias bibliográficas

Debraj Ray (2002), Economía del Desarrollo. Primera Edición, Antoni Bosch. (Sitio web del autor: https://debrajray.com)

Acemoglu y Robinson (2022), Por qué fracasan los países: Los orígenes del poder, la prosperidad y la pobreza. Planeta Publishing.

Javier Reyes and W. Charles Sawyer (2019), Latin American Economic Development, Routledge Textbooks in Development Economics, Third Edition.

Papers

• Acemoglu, D., Johnson, S. and J. Robinson (2001), “The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation,” American Economic Review 91, 1369 - 1401.

• Alesina, A., Giuliano, P. and N. Nunn (2013), “On the Origins of Gender Roles: Women and the Plough,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 128, 469 - 530.

• Alfani, Guido (2022), “Epidemics, Inequality, and Poverty in Preindustrial and Early Industrial Times,” Journal of Economic Literature, 60(1), 3 - 40.

• S. Anderson and D. Ray (2010), “Missing Women: Age and Disease,” Review of Economic Studies 77, 1262 - 1300.

• Barro, R. J. (2000). Inequality and Growth in a Panel of Countries. Journal of Economic Growth, 5(1), 5–32.

• Banerjee, A. and L. Iyer (2005), “History, Institutions, and Economic Performance: The Legacy of Colonial Land Tenure Systems in India,” American Economic Review 95, 1190 - 1213.

• Deaton A. and Heston A. (2010), "Understanding PPPs and PPP-based National Accounts," American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 2, 1–35.

• Esteban, J., Mayoral, L. and D. Ray (2012), “Ethnicity and Conflict: Theory and Facts,” Science 336, 858 - 865.

• Hsieh, C. and Klenow, P. J. (2009), "Misallocation and Manufacturing TFP in China and India," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 124, 1403-1448.

• Mankiw, N.G., Romer, D. and Weil, D. N. (1992), “A Contribution to the Empirics of Economic Growth,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 107, 407 - 437.

• A. Mitra and D. Ray (2014), “Implications of an Economic Theory of Conflict: Hindu-Muslim Violence in India,” Journal of Political Economy 122, 719 - 765.

• K. Munshi and J. Myaux (2006), “Social Norms and the Fertility Transition,” Journal of Development Economics 80, 1 - 38.

• Martínez, L. R. (2022), How Much Should We Trust the Dictator’s GDP Growth Estimates?", Journal of Political Economy 130.

• Nunn, N. (2008), “The Long-Run Effects of Africa’s Slave Trade,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 123, 139 - 176.

• Nunn, N. and Wantchekon, L. (2011), "The Slave Trade and the Origins of Mistrust in Africa," American Economic Review 101, 3221 - 3252.

• Pritchett, L. (1997), “Divergence, Big Time,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 11, 3-17.

• Ray, D. (2008), “Development Economics,” in L. Blume and S. Durlauf, The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics.

• Ray, D. (2010), “Uneven Growth: A Framework for Research in Development Economics,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 24, (Summer), 45 - 60.

• Ray, D. and J. Esteban (2017), “Conflict and Development,” Annual Review of Economics 9, 263 - 293.

• Rosenstein-Rodan, P. (1943), “Problems of Industrialization of Eastern and Southeastern Europe,” Economic Journal 53, 202 - 211

• Sokoloff, K. and S. Engerman (2000), “History Lessons: Institutions, Factor Endowments, and Paths of Development in the New World,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 14, 217 - 232.

Fuentes de Datos

• World Development Indicators (Banco Mundial)

  • https://databank.worldbank.org/source/world-development-indicators

  • En R: install.packages("WDI")

• Penn World Table

  • https://www.rug.nl/ggdc/productivity/pwt/

  • En R: install.packages("pwt10")

• World Economic Outlook

  • https://www.imf.org/en/publications/weo