At the University of Manchester, I have been teaching seminars and conducting workshops in different topics.
Course: "Anti-Poverty Transfer Programs" by Prof. Vidhya Unnikrishnan
Responsibilities: In charge of conducting the seminars.
Seminar content: FGT Poverty Index, Poverty lines, Multidimensional Poverty, Conditional Cash Transfers, Randomized Control Trials, Targeting Effectiveness, Diff-in-Diff.
Slides: Seminar 1 - Seminar 2 - Seminar 3
Course: “Trade Theory and Development” by Prof. Osman Ouattara
Responsibilities: In charge of conducting the seminars.
Seminar content: Absolute and comparative advantage, opportunity cost, production possibility frontier, HO theorem, Leontief Paradox, Internal and external economies of scale.
Course: “Current Issues in Development Finance” by Prof. Antonio Savoia.
Responsibilities: In charge of conducting seminars to discuss research papers about the relationship between financial sector development and economic growth.
Seminar content: Different measures of financial sector development and the debate of the direction of causality between financial development and economic growth.
- DFID (2004) The Importance of Financial Sector Development for Growth and Poverty Reduction, Policy Division Working Paper
- Beck, T., Demirgüç-Kunt, A., and Honohan, P. (2009) Access to Financial Services: Measurement, Impact and Policies, World Bank Research Observer, 24(1):119-145
- Atkinson, A. B., & Morelli, S. (2011). Economic crises and inequality. UNDP-HDRO occasional papers, (2011/6).
- Stiglitz, J. E. (2012). Macroeconomic fluctuations, inequality, and human development. Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 13(1), 31-58.
- Arestis, P. and Demetriades, P. (1997). Financial development and economic growth: assessing the evidence. The economic journal, 107(442), pp.783-799.
- Calderón, C. and Liu, L., (2003). The direction of causality between financial development and economic growth. Journal of development economics, 72(1), pp.321-334.
Course: “Work and Employment in the Global Economy” by Prof. Shamel Azmeh
Responsibilities: In charge of conducting the seminars to discuss specific research papers about different labour subjects.
Seminar content: Informality, female labour participation, automatization, inclusion of labour standards in trade agreements.
- Martha Alter Chen, The Informal Economy: Definitions, Theories and Policies, WIEGO Working Paper No 1, 2012.
- David H. Autor, Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future of Workplace Automation. Journal of Economic Perspectives—Volume 29, Number 3, 2015.
- Maria Artuso & Carolan McLarney, A Race to the Top: Should Labour Standards be Inlcuded in Trade Agreements?, The Journal for Decision Makers. Volume 40, Issue 1, 2015
- Stephan Klasen, What Explains Uneven Female Labor Force Participation Levels and Trends in Developing Countries?, The World Bank Research Observer, Volume 34, Issue 2, August 2019
Course: “Understanding Development Research” by Prof. Gindo Tampubolon
Responsibilities: Orientation for master students to work on their thesis. Workshops on literature reviews, handling bibliographic references, how to structure a master thesis, etc.
Course: Sustainable Development Goals, by Prof. Jennifer O’Brien.
Responsibilities: In charge of marking essays and research proposals from undergrad students about the Sustainable Development Goals.
The evaluations of master students are only available for courses with more than 100 students and at least 40% of response rate. Below you can find my results.