MRPP306 ECONOMICS FOR PUBLIC POLICY

MRPP306 ECONOMICS FOR PUBLIC POLICY

Course start date: 18 Feb 2023
The course is meant to expose students to basic principles of economics. It introduces students to the economic issues that impinge on public policy. It is meant to provide students with economic principles and tools needed for policy analysis. It covers economic analytical tools that will help them to understand real world economic issues and problems that they can use to analyse the economic setting. It is meant to help students to understand tools used by economists to analyse the economy, and how they respond to economic issues. It also introduces students to
64 how economists tackle public policy based on their way of thinking. In particular, it focuses on the economic issues that have been at the core of public policy debate in Africa. The course is organised in two components i.e. Micro-Economics and Macro Economics.
  • Enrolled students: 7