EDUCATIONAL GOALS
The course aims to provide students with the basic knowledge to be able to understand and analyse the most advanced dynamics of economic growth and development, starting from the normative principles elaborated in standard and more recent theoretical approaches. The course also aims to encourage students to reflect on the ethical profiles of the various theories of economic development and, specifically, on the issues of growing inequality. The content of the course, therefore, represents one of the core subjects to achieve an "education aimed at understanding the functioning of modern economic and financial systems according to the study of issues concerning macro socio-economic development" and its determinants, in line with the educational regulation of the Degree Course as a whole.

EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES

KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
After completing the course, students will be able to understand the different economic theories concerning development and sustainability and will also have acquired an understanding of the dynamics of economic growth and, last but not least, the fundamental difference between "growth" and "development" of a country.

ABILITY TO APPLY KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
After completing the course, students will be able to understand and apply some techniques for measuring growth and economic development, as well as identify the underlying theoretical approaches in order to have the essential methodologies available to deal with critical and / or quantitative analyses of the related real, contemporary phenomena.

MAKING JUDGEMENTS
The approach to development economics allows the student to acquire an increasing aptitude for the complexity of everyday life within economic studies connected both to the ability to analyse sustainability and to the capacity to critically evaluate policy implications and socio-economic solutions to be adopted.

COMMUNICATION SKILLS
After completing the course, students will be able to properly improve the use of economic language and expose and discuss - with greater rigour than in the second year of the Degree Course - the relationships between some of the macroeconomic variables within growth and development models considered.