This module seeks to understand the challenge of economic development from an industrial development perspective. Two dimensions of economic development will be studied:

The role played by infrastructure in local and regional economic dynamics, politics and livelihoods, showing how government policies, the market and technology interact to produce outcomes that may benefit some more than others; and
	We engage in theories of industrial development at different scales to better understand the challenges people and places face in light of current power structures across international value-chains, and how community leaders can draw from sound economic and industrial development theory to engage in inclusive economic development policy and governance.
Together the two halves of the module offer students a theoretical and empirical perspective of regional, national and international economic development, so as to better understand why economic activity is so unequally distributed across geographic space, why some regions are on ‘high road’ economic trajectories while others are on what appears to be a ‘low-road’, and how policymakers can intervene through industrial policy or infrastructure projects to steer their economies towards that 'high-road' trajectory.

This module takes place in Term 2 and represents 150 hours of student learning time, which includes lectures, seminars, private reading and discussion/group work. There is an assignment to be submitted at the end of the term.

By the end of this module you will have:

A solid grounding in theories of economic development.
	An understanding of how different governance frameworks as applied to infrastructure development can influence poverty levels, inequality and economic growth.
	Knowledge about the links between livelihoods, industrialisation and infrastructure.
	The ability to understand the changing nature of specific policy approaches to industrialisation and infrastructure creation and their economic, social and environmental implications at the national, regional and local levels in developing countries.