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Week
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Topics
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Study Metarials
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1
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Introduction, Aims of the course, Main concepts, Living standards & Inequality
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R1 - Chap. 1
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2
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Income, Earnings and the Standard of Living
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R1 - Chap. 2
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3
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Income Inequality: Its Measurement, Historical Trends, and International Comparisons
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R1 - Chap. 3
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4
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The Distributional Effects of Economic Growth
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R2 - Chap. 1
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5
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The Meaning and Measurement of Income Inequality, Economic Growth and Inequality
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R2 - Chap. 2
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6
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Growth, Poverty and Inequality: An Overview
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R3 - Chap. 3
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7
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Inequality: What can be done?, The Economics of Inequality
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AR1 - All Chapters
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8
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Poverty Definitions and Historical Trends: The Measurement of Poverty and Poverty incidence
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R1 - Chap. 4
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9
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Poverty Definitions and Historical Trends: Poverty trends, Other dimensions of poverty, other issues in the measurement of poverty
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R1 - Chap. 4
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10
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The Measurement of Poverty, Economic Growth and Poverty
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R3 - Chap. 4-5
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11
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The Many Dimensions of Poverty
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AR2 - All Chapters
AR3 - Chap. 2
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12
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Household wealth, International comparisons of household wealth distribution
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R1 - Chap. 5
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13
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Economic mobility: mobility measures & mobility over time, The meaning and measurement of income mobility
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R1 - Chap. 6
R3 - Chap. 6
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14
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Explanations of Inequality and Poverty: further explanations
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R1 - Chap. 7
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Prerequisites
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Language of Instruction
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Turkish
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Responsible
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Mehmet Sedat Ugur, PhD
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Instructors
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1-)Doktor Öğretim Üyesi Mehmet Sedat Uğur
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Assistants
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Resources
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R1. Wolff, E. N. (2009). Poverty and Income Distribution. Wiley-Blackwell.
R2. Fields, G.S. (2002). Distribution and Development. MIT Press.
R3. Nallari, R. & Griffith, B. (2007). Understanding Growth and Poverty. World Bank Pub.
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Supplementary Book
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AR1. Atkinson, A. (2015). Inequality: what can be done? Harvard University Press.
AR2. Kakwani, N. & Silber, J. (2008). The Many Dimensions of Poverty. Palgrave MacMillan.
AR3. Uğur, M. S. (2022). Yoksulluğun Farklı Boyutları ve Çok Boyutlu Yoksulluk. Nobel Yayınları.
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Goals
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The aim of this course is to enable students to learn basic information about income distribution and poverty both theoretically and practically, to develop the ability to measure income distribution and poverty and to interpret the results obtained.
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Content
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This course will cover the topics such as income distribution and poverty trends, measurement methods, income distribution, relations between poverty and growth, and economic mobility.
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Program Learning Outcomes |
Level of Contribution |
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1
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To develop new knowledge accumulation on acquired graduate proficiency in economics and other disciplines at expertise level.
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4
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2
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To be able to contribute to the literature via developing consistent approaches on economic issues point of view analytical and scientific.
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5
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3
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To gain oral and written academic communication proficiency using foreign language.
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4
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To use software packages (SPSS, E-views, etc.) used in analysing economic issues at advance level.
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5
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To build models using numerical and graphical methods and to make empirical studies to test them.
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-
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6
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To have to be conscious of lifelong learning and inquiry
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7
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To analyse how economic actors affect each other by examining their decision-making processes.
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4
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8
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To gain awareness of social, scientific and professional ethics.
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9
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To have knowledge on theories and new approaches in the field of economics at advanced level.
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5
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10
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To gain ability to make academic studies in the fields of economics and interdisciplinary as individual and group.
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4
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