Economy and Policy of the Countries and Regions

Economy and Policy of the Countries and Regions

Course description:

This coursecovers economy of developing countries of the Western Europe, USA, Japan, Latin America, Middle East and Northern Africa, India, China and Russia from the XX century till now.

Instructor:Krasavina Raisa A.

Credit points: 5

Faculty:Faculty of Economics

Language:Russian

Level:Bachelor/Master

Academic hours: 56

Syllabus

1. Economic of XXI century: national, regional and global aspects.
2. A political map of the world. Classification of the countries and regions.
3. Economy of the countries of the Western Europe: a general characteristic.
4. A place and a role of EU in the world economy.
5. Economy of Germany and the Great Britain.
6. Economy of France and Italy.
7. The characteristic of the small countries of the Western Europe.
8. Features of geopolicy and economic development of the countries Central and the East Europe.
9. Economy of Poland and Czech.
10. Structure and features of economic and political development of North American macroregion.
11. Economy of USA and Canada.
12. A general characteristic of Latin America. Regional distinctions of political and economic strategy.
13. The new industrial countries of Latin America (Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Chile).
14. Conditions of development of Asian macroregion.
15. A special way of development of China: a policyand economy.
16. India: a way from the past in the future.
17. The new industrial countries of South- East Asia: experience of development.
18. Model of development of Japanese economy.
19. Economy of the countries of resettlement capitalism » (Australia, New Zealand, Israel, the Republic of South Africa).
20. Middle East and Northern Africa: ways of development (Turkey, Egypt).
21. Equatorial Africa: diverse tendencies of economic and political development (Nigeria, Congo, Angola).
22. Problems of the international help. The least advanced countries of the world.
23. The Russian Federation in system of the world economy.
24. The Commonwealth of Independent States as the Euroasian region.

Readings

1.Gerber J. International Economics by Pearson Education. Inc. 2005.

2. Krugman Paul, R. Obstfeld Maurice. International Economics. Theory and Policy by Pearson Education. Inc. 2005.