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Lesson Information

Course Credit
Course ECTS Credit
Teaching Language of Instruction İngilizce
Level of Course Bachelor's Degree, TYYÇ: Level 6, EQF-LLL: Level 6, QF-EHEA: First Cycle
Type of Course
Mode of Delivery Distance Learning
Does the course require compulsory or optional work experience?
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Course Assistant

Purpose and Content

The aim of the course The course focuses on topics dealing with international trade, development, and contemporary international trade policies. It also includes underdeveloped, developing and developed countries and trade relations.
Course Content The course analyses the subjects based on the microeconomics and macroeconomics and also theories taught before. Economic development, trade and trade relations, international organziations, the analysis of economic development based on coutries and trade volume of the countries. The comperative analysis also gives a clear view to the lecture.

Weekly Course Subjects

1Introduction, introducing the course to students, explaining the expectations of students, requirements, etc. Briefly reminding some theories,
2Briefing on term assignment International Trade on Economic Development, The Impact of International Trade on Economic Growth, The Impact of International Trade on Economic Development,
3The development of underdevelopment, The Stages of Economic Growth, Rostow International Economic Institutions since World War II
4Import Substitution, Export Promotion, and the State in Economic Development, The contribution that trade can make to economic development
5Development and Globalisation Instituting the development project, Colonisation, Decolonisation and development
6From national development to globalisation Implementing globalisation as a project Rethinking development
7Trading System and World Trade Organisation and Its Role, Developing Economies, Trade Agreements and Free Trade, Economic Integration, The Political Economy of Trade Policy
8Development and ComparativeAdvantage, Transfer of Technology and Developing Nations
9Midterm Exam
10Analysing of Trade and Performance of Development, Trade between Developing Countries and Position of Transition Economies, The Role of Agriculture in Economic Development
11Economic Growth Developing Countries and Problem of Competitiveness, No more pencils, no more books
12Closing schools for covid-19 does lifelong harm and widens inequality Primary schools in particular are vital to social mobility
13Economic development, fairness, position of countries with disadvantages, School closures in poor countries and the level of development, anticompetitive practice?
14How trade is being used to enforce labour standards
 Poverty and extreme poverty with the pandemic that plunging millions back.

Resources

Paul R. Krugman, Maurice Obstfeld, International Economics, Theory and Policy, Fifth Edition, Massachusetts 2000 (Students are believed to be familiar with this source and it is considered to be a reference book only)
Peter B. Kenen, The International Economy, Third Edition, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001.
Nicholas Kaldor, International Trade and Economic development, The Journal of Modern Studies, 2,4 (1964), pp. 491-511.
Trade and Development Report 2013, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), United Nations, New York, 2013.

Apart from the above list, there is no published source for the course. Different materials as well as articles and state reports are used for the course.