Firms and Development Lecture notes for Development Economics I (option course, MPhil in Economics)

Outline of these lectures These notes provide some background for four lectures that I will be giving this year for the Devel-opment Economics I option course. I will use slides for the lectures, and I will make these slides available online after each lecture. It is likely that there will be some things in these notes that we do not have time to cover in class, and we may cover some things in class that are not covered in these notes. Though we will focus in class on the most important issues, please consider all of the lectures, all of the notes and all of the starred readings to be potentially relevant for the exam. I have suggested a list of references for each lecture; you should read the ones that are starred (‘?’). Among the starred readings, you should pay more attention to the readings discussed in these notes; the other starred readings are required as background to the core concepts we cover. You are not required or expected to read the non-starred references