Week # 12-13: Environment, inflation & sustainable development

  • Model of environment and economic activity
  • Environmental externalities and market intervention
  • Discount rate
  • Renewable and Non-renewable resources
  • Environmental values
  • National income accounting
  • Economic growth and environment
  • Sustainable development
  • Natural capital and equity
  • Climate change and Stern Review
  • Climate change and the poor
  • International agencies, agreements and environment
  • Approaches to financing development
  • Forms of saving
  • Capacity and willingness to save
  • Financial systems and economic development
  • Informal financial sector
  • Developing a banking system
  • Rural financial intermediaries; micro-credit and development banks
  • Financial intermediaries
  • Financial liberalisation
  • Fiscal policy, taxation and tax reform
  • Inflation, saving  and growth: Keynes and inflation tax
  • Dangers of inflation, and inflation targeting
  • Structuralist-monetarist debate in Latin America

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