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This is an overview course on key issues on international development policy issues and development cooperation. The course will introduce the students to (i) historical evolution of thinking on development policy; (ii) some basic economic concepts about economic growth in developing countries; (iii) familiarize students with the poverty and inequality situations in developing countries, with the special challenges of fragile and conflict countries, urbanization and rural-urban migration, the impacts of weak governance, and impacts of climate change. The course will pay particular attention to the impacts of the COVID pandemic on economic growth, poverty alleviation, hunger and will assess macroeconomic and sectoral measures which can be taken to mitigate these impacts in the short and medium term.