Transcript Análise Sectorial

Economia de Desenvolvimento
Agrário (Rural)
Lecture notes 1
February 2008
Outline
• My background
• Background of students – expectations –
through their representatives
• Schedule – agree with students
• Course content/required reading – discuss
with students
• Objectives of the course
My background
• MA in Economics 1968
• UNDP and FAO Peru 1968-71
• Economic Commission for Latin America 197174
• University of Lund PhD 1981
• PhD course in environmental economics 2004
• Mozambique 1979-81 and since then
consultancies about 2 times per year
• For details:
http://web.comhem.se/tom.alberts
My co-ordinates
• [email protected]
• My new Web Site:
http://web.comhem.se/t.alberts
I will try to up-load lecture notes etc onto my Web
Site.
• 82 39 62 600
Schedule
• Mondays: 17:30-19:00
• Tuesdays: 15:45-17:15
• Wednesdays: 17:30-19:00 (not 13
February)
I will be available one hour before the
lecture starts.
Extra session one Saturday - Internet
Reading List
• I assume that you have read:
PLANO DE ACÇÃO PARA A REDUÇÃO
DA POBREZA ABSOLUTA 2006-2009
Can be found on the Web (Portal do
Governo)
and
• ESTRATÉGIA DE DESENVOLVIMENTO
RURAL (EDR) Setembro de 2007
• Decentralisation policies of the
Government of Mozambique
• And the The Science and Technology
Strategy of May 2006.
Major textbook
• Todaro, Michael P. and Smith, Stephen C.
Economic Development 9th Edition
It is a big book with lots of useful
references
For students visit:
www.aw-bc.com/todaro_smith
For those who have difficulties with
basic Economics
• Samuelson, Paul A. and Nordhaus,
William D.
Economía
• It is a standard texbook in economics but
any one will do.
Case studies
• URBAN BIAS IN DEVELOPMENT REVISITED
POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIES IN
TANZANIA
Tom Alberts
Stockholm, 8 February, 2005
Can be downloaded from my Web site (Adobe)
Perhaps a book – …Can be
downloaded from my Web Site
• Theoretical Framework
• Wasting Water. Peru 1979 and Swaziland
1998, the same sad story
• Vested Interests in Action. Two
Multinational Companies in Argentina
1985
• Using Scarce Resources Better. Mission
Impossible?
• The Choice of Technology Revisited
• Evaluation of IBIS extension programme in
the Zambezia province (Report available)
• Mozambique – A Success Story in Poverty
Alleviation? Can be down loaded from my
Web Site.
Objectives of the Course
General objectives:
 To provide the students with basic knowledge of
applied economic theory relevant to
Mozambican rural and agricultural development
so as to enhance their capacity to analyze
problems and propose practical solutions; and
 To provide the students with a general
background of the international discourse on
economic and socio-economic development,
with particular emphasis on rural and agricultural
development.
Specific objectives
 Develop the students’ capacity to provide
policy analysis and develop policy options;
 Train the students to use the Internet to
find relevant information for problem
solving; and
 Train the students to apply economic
theory on specific problems including
areas such as:
…areas such as:
o The importance of defining costs and benefits
in economic terms (costs and benefits to
society)
o Domestic and international trade
o Foreign direct investments in Mozambican
agriculture – opportunities and threats
o The choice of technology
…areas such as:
o Resource allocation
o Pricing policy
o Measures on development such as the
Human Development Index
o Poverty issues
o Distribution of income and wealth
o Constraints and possibilities of rural and
agricultural development in Mozambique
For this you will have to understand
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Average and marginal productivity
Total, average and marginal costs
Supply and Demand curves
Price and income elasticities
Opportunity costs
Net present value
Discounting
and
•
•
•
•
Real and nominal values - inflation
Consumer price index and other indices
Profit maximization
The difference between social and private
costs and benefits
• Terms-of-Trade
• And …
Course requirement
• Pass a written exam – date?
• Summarize 3 scientific articles within an
area of interest to you and:
– The articles should be written in English
– They should be in the AGORA collection –
more than 900 academic journals available to
you
– The Summary can be in Portuguese
AGORA
• Web Site:
www.aginternetwork.org
• User name: ag-MOZ002
• Password: d9gV2QL3
• The article must be from the
AGORA database!
Googles
• Googles is very rapid
• Use advanced search
• Here you can rapidly find the articles you are
interested in You cannot download most
academic articles!!
• Have to use AGORA
• Try also Googles Scholar
• Time to practice!!!