Money and banking lectures at the IDEAs Advanced Certificate Programme

We invite applications from guest students for the lectures on “Money and banking”, which is a part of the Advanced Certificate Programme on Research in Political Economy. Students will be required to attend all lectures of the course and will be given a certificate of participation on the completion of the course.

Registration deadline: 9 March

Lecturers: Ndongo Samba Sylla, Yan Liang, and Redge Nkosi

Dates and Lecture Topics:

– 18 March: Money: An introduction

– 20 March: Banks and banking theories

– 23 March: Banking and payment systems

– 25 March: Financial system and instruments

– 27 March: Clearing, repos and open market operations

– 30 March: Banking and the macroeconomy

– 6 April: Colonial monetary systems: The CFA franc case

– 13 April: Monetary integration in contemporary Africa

– 16 April: Exchange rates: Mainstream vs. heterodox approaches

– 20 April: Monetary sovereignty and the “external constraint”

– 23 April: Development finance: Lessons from China

– 30 April: Decolonizing/reforming the global financial system

Time: 1:30-4:00 PM UTC

Lecture Mode: Online via Zoom