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What are the pros and cons of encouraging the development of stock markets in developing countries?
If scarcity of administrative capabilities is a serious constraint on development policy implementation, what can developing countries do to relieve constraint?
Briefly discuss the seven market failures that Stiglitz and his colleagues say justify a strong government role in developing-country financial sectors.
How do you think current orientation of military and diplomatic policy in potential donor nations toward combating international terrorism is likely to affect.
What can be learned from the historical experiences of Costa Rica and Guatemala about internal conflicts and about both positive and negative foreign influence?
What are the relative roles of central banks, commercial banks, development banks, informal and unorganized sources of credit and microfinance.
Why are many taxes so difficult to collect? Discuss. In what ways do you think taxation and expenditure systems in developing countries could be improved?
What are the arguments for and against privatization of the public sector in developing countries?
What are some of the benefits of expanding microcredit programs, and what are some of its potential limits?
What kinds of evidence would you seek to resolve these, in a localized context? What lessons can be learned for low-income countries from Botswana's successes?
Which type of aid is more desirable from the perspective of recipient countries? Explain your answer.
Under what conditions and terms do you think developing countries should seek and accept foreign aid in the future?
What are the major disadvantages of tied aid, especially when this aid comes in the form of interest-bearing loans?
How would you explain the fact that relative costs of and returns to higher education are so much higher in developing than in developed countries?
What is meant by comprehensive or integrated rural development? What explain sharecropping? To what extent do you think your explanation justifies the practice?
Discuss three main systems of agriculture found in the developing world. To what extent are these systems concentrated in three major developing regions?
Why should any analysis of development problems place heavy emphasis on the study of agricultural systems, especially peasant agriculture, and the rural sector?
Why make transfers conditional? What are the possible benefits as well as drawbacks? What were the features of the original evaluation?
What are the relationships between health and education, on the one hand and productivity. What can government do to make health systems more equitable?
What is the human capital approach to health and education? What do you think are its most important strengths and weaknesses?
What are the consequences of gender bias in health and education? Can a large gap between male and female literacy affect development? Why?
What explains the large gains in health and education in recent decades? Why are health and education so closely linked in the development challenge?
What are some of these external and internal factors, and how can government policies make education more relevant to the real meaning of development?
What do we mean by the economics of education? To what extent do you think educational planning and policy decisions ought to be guid by economic consideration?
What economic factors give rise to the wide divergence between private and social benefit-to-cost valuations in most developing countries?