This option aims at equipping students with the theoretical and empirical tools that are necessary to understand and discuss long-term growth and its determinants. The option provides an historical perspective of economic theories of development, and an analysis of macroeconomic issues that emerge in a context of increasingly globalized economies.

Upon completion of this option, students will be able to critically mobilize economics of development /macroeconomics of development theories, as well as accounting and statistical tools currently used to analyse and discuss contemporary growth or development problems.