1. Economic development strategies: 1) What stimulates economic development: the market, the state and civil society; 2) Theories of economic growth and development; evolution of development theories (measurement of economic development and development decades of the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and XXI century); 3) Strategies of economic development (hypothesis of backwardness, industrialization of agriculture, state and market, import substitution and export orientation, alternative development models);
2. Financing of economic development: 1) Formation and allocation of capital and economic development; 2) Financing economic development with domestic savings; 3) External sources of financing economic development;
3. Local economic development: 1) Locations in trouble; 2) Conception of local economic development (horizontal development planning); 3) Cities, the new force of economic development in the 21st century;
4. Free topics: 1) Challenges and opportunities for economic development on the global stage; 2) Challenges of economic development in the conditions of the duration of the global recession and the Eurocrisis; 3) BiH in the vortex of globalization and global recession.

• Lectures – 5 points
• Test – 20 points
• Seminar paper – 35 points
• Oral exam – 40 points

Mandatory

1. Todaro, M., Smith, Stephen (2006), Economic Development, "Sahinpašić", Sarajevo
2. Blanchard, Oliver. (2011) Macroeconomics, MATE, Zagreb.
3. Osmanković, Jasmina, Nikolajev, Amina, Human Development, Faculty of Economics, University of Sarajevo.

Additional

1. Samuelson, P., Nordhaus, W., Ekonomija, MATE, Zagreb, 2011. (Chapter 26: The Challenge of Economic Development, pp. 521-542).
2. Kenichi, Ohmnae (2007) The New Global Stage, MATE, Zagreb.
3. Ravenhill, John (2014): Global Political Economy Fourth Edition, Oxford University Press.
4. Rao, PK (2000), Sustainable Development – Economics and Policy, Basic Blackwell, Oxford.