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The Exam Questions on the Development Economics 1. What is the difference between the neokeynesian and neoclassical concepts of “growth” and “development”? 2. Why did the neoclassical models of economic development prove to be more workable than the neokeynesian models regarding the developing countries? 3. What is meant by the real dualism of a weekly developed economy from the neoclassical point of view? 4. What are the drawbacks of Lewis’ model of resource redistribution from traditional to modern sectors of economy? 5. What are the main directions to improve the concept of dual economy? 6. Show graphically what will happen if the entrepreneurs reinvest the produce surplus: a) in labor intensive production; b) in capital intensive production. What will be the changes in employment and real wage levels in both cases? 7. The labor resources in industry are equal to 200 and capital is 300. The technological factor is 4. The share of capital in income is 0,3. The laborers’ temporal preferences are 0,5. Basing on Cobbe –Douglas model, find out: a) the industrial output; b) the total capital income; c) the labor income per one unit of labor resource. 8. What are the main differences between the institutional theories of the emergence of the market economy, on one hand, and the neoclassical and Keynesian theories on the other hand? 9. The G. Myrdal concept of “Asian Drama”: its main ideas. What is meant by “the Asian values” and what is their impact on socio-economic development? 10. Economic planning in the developing countries: its specificity and distinguishing features from planning in the developed countries and in the countries of command economy. 11. The employment in developing countries: real and imaginary. What is the positive program in this sphere offered by G. Myrdal? What were the results of its practical implementation? 12. What is the structure of Human Development Index elaborated by the UNO? How this index is used to determine the priorities of investments in modern economies? 13. The theories of human capital: their main characteristics and the peculiarities of their practical application in the developing countries. How do the theories of human capital interpret the essence of economic development? 14. How do the neoinstitutional theories explain the reasons of economic backwardness of developing countries? What is the contribution of E. de Soto to the analysis of this problem? 15. Is the concept elaborated by E. de Soto applicable to the analysis of the transitional economies of Eastern Europe and Russia? 16. Why does capitalism triumph in developed countries but fails in developing countries? 17. Is it possible to consider the vicious circle of illegality as a specific variant of the institutional trap? 18. Are there any positive social consequences of the existence of illegal economic sector? 19. How to reduce the costs of law-obedience and the price of illegality? 20. Is it possible to classify the protestant ethics as a social institute? Can it be applicable in the developing countries? 21. Harrod-Domar model: its prerequisites, essence and its role in the theories of “Big push”. 22. What are the positive and negative features of W. Rostow main stages growth concept. 23. Two-gaps model of economic growth: its prerequisites and essence. 24. The theory of absolute and comparative advantages: its essence and problems of practical application in the developing countries. 25. The neoclassical model of R. Solow: its essence and the specificities of its application in the developing countries. 26. What are the specific features of the H. Leibenstein theory of quasi-stable equilibrium? 27. When and why did emerge the theory of the “vicious circle of poverty”. What is the essence of this theory and what are its main variants? 28. What are the differences between technological and social dualism? What are their specificities in the developing countries? 29. The theory of human capital: the problems of its application in the developing countries. 30. How to account for the growth of popularity of institutionalism in the developing countries in the last decades of the XX century?