ECON.3392
ASSIGNMENT NO. 1
The main point of this exercise is to help students develop some skill at finding and retrieving relevant data and other information and using that information to elucidate some of the concepts we have learnt in class. This assignment is associated with the material covered in Section I.
PAPER TOPICS
- In what ways do the following concepts of development overlap and do not overlap with “development as freedom” or “expansion of capabilities”:
- Development as growth;
- Development as the fulfilment of basic needs;
- Improved governance, gender and civic freedoms and environmental sustainability.
You can take a practical approach by using country experiences to illustrate your points, wherever possible, or you can take a more philosophical approach (or some combination of the two)
- Choose one developing (or transition) country from the group below then:
(a) Broadly describe their experience in terms of changes in happiness measures from 2006 to 2016 (see the Appendix to Chapter 2 of World Happiness Report 2017: http://worldhappiness.report/ed/2017/);
(b) Determine to what extent social, political and economic changes during that period may help to explain those changes.
| Paraguay | Sri Lanka | Thailand | Sierra Leone |
