Assessment Materials in Development Economics
Around 250 videos, uploaded in 2015, ranging from two to twenty minutes in length. Each uses narrated slides to introduce a concept or example. On the MRUniversity site, where they form part of a course, these videos are linked to assessment questions, download options and a discussion facility.
One hundred and two multiple-choice questions from a legacy course that have been shared on GitHub. Answers can be viewed by replacing the filename FinalExam.html with FinalExam-Answers.html
Twelve video lectures and accompnying slides, plus detailed reading list and problem sets from the first half of a 2013 undergraduate course. Topics include "migration, modernization, and technological change; static and dynamic models of political economy; the dynamics of income distribution and institutional change; firm structure in developing countries; development, transparency, and functioning of financial markets; privatization; and banks and credit market institutions in emerging markets." The videos can be downloaded from the Internet Archive or from iTunesU.
This archive uses presents feedback on multi-choice questions on 40 different topics, with varying numbers of questions in each. Many of the questions involve clickable images, with students using mouse clicks to indicate equilibria. Topics include: markets, firms, wages, national income, money, unemployment and inflation, government, and international. The official site is no longer running, so this link is to Archive.org's copy.
Examination with marking guidelines for module in Macroeconomic Policy in Developing Counties.
Originally taught in 2004, this archived course looked at "the different facets of human development: education, health, gender, the family, land relations, risk, informal and formal norms and institutions." Reading list, note-form lecture notes, exams and STATA exercises are available.
Reading list and essay topics from a 2003 course that explores "why poverty, economic transformations and development policies often have different consequences for women and men, while also examining the history of development itself, its underlying assumptions, and its range of supporters and critics." The content is available in Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese as well as in English.