Week # 16-17: Trade and its impacts on local economy

  • Role  of foreign borrowing and dual gap analysis
  • Models of capital imports and growth
  • Types of international capital flows
  • Motives and critics of aid
  • Macroeconomic impact of aid
  • Flows of resources and aid component
  • Recipients of official assistance and aid tying
  • Gains from trade: static and dynamic
  • Customs unions and free trade areas
  • Free trade enthusiasm in modern era
  • Measurement and process of trade liberalisation
  • Models of export-led growth: what you export matters
  • Trade liberalisation and export growth
  • Trade liberalisation, imports and balance of payments
  • Trade liberalisation and economic performance
  • Trade liberalisation, poverty and domestic inequality
  • Trade liberalisation and international inequality
  • Disadvantages of free trade for development

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