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Development Policy Strategy. Ricardo Hausmann, Fall 2015, Syllabus. "This is a capstone course that integrates a variety of analytical tools to assess the development challenges faced by countries. The course will develop the tools to diagnose growth constraints, structural transformation possibilities, macroeconomic imbalances, fiscal policy, labor market performance, the sources of inequality and volatility, and relate them to policy issues. The course will be applied in the sense that it starts from observations and explores how different theories make sense of the facts. Students will be required to make assessments of these..." Link