Browse Hierarchy ECON6004: Finance and Development

This module explores the problems and challenges of financing development in developing countries through internal and external sources of finance. The module will look both at the operation of the private sector, covering both financial institutions and markets, and also at the role of the public sector, looking both at transfers of funds and at regulatory issues. Issues such as the role of stock markets and the banking sector, credit market failures and micro-finance, international capital flows and financial regulation in the context of developing economies will be examined.