From Poverty to Prosperity: Understanding Economic Development
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The Syllabus
- Economic development needs polities that are centralised and inclusive. 
- No society starts with such a polity. Starting from anarchy, what determines whether a centralised state emerges?
- Economic development needs polities that are centralised and inclusive. 
- No society starts with such a polity. What are the factors that develop a centralised state into an inclusive one?
- Economic development needs an alignment between power and identities. 
- What happens when power and identities are misaligned and how can that misalignment be addressed?
- Economic development depends upon exploiting scale and specialisation, 
- but poor societies start with neither. How can government policies promote or inhibit the exploitation of scale and specialisation?
- The political, social and economic processes covered in previous modules are fundamentally internal. 
- External influences are peripheral but may still matter, for good or ill.
- The details of the final assignment and instructions on how to complete it will be available in this module.
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