Finance for Development (L1082)

15 credits, Level 5

Spring teaching

This module discusses and analyses the relationship between finance and development.

You'll use economic theory to help you understand the relationships between finance, economic growth, and human development. You'll learn about different schools of thought in economics, and their very different perspectives on these issues.

You'll explore various topics, analysing and critically discussing the relationship between finance and development from a macroeconomic and a microeconomic perspective.

Topics you'll study include:

• the history of the international monetary system
• development aid
• debt and equity financing
• taxation
• remittances
• climate finance
• microfinance.

Contact hours and workload

This module is approximately 150 hours of work. This breaks down into about 32 hours of contact time and about 118 hours of independent study. The University may make minor variations to the contact hours for operational reasons, including timetabling requirements.

We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2025/26. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to feedback, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum.

We’ll make sure to let you know of any material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.

Courses

This module is offered on the following courses:

• Economics (with a professional placement year) BA
• Economics (with a professional placement year) BSc
• Economics BA
• Economics BSc
• Economics and Finance (with a professional placement year) BSc
• Economics and Finance BSc
• Economics and International Development BA
• Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) BA