I did my undergrad at a school where there wasn't any choice to take advanced math courses (outside the US) and my master's in the UK doesn't have a strong math component. Can the GRE in math make up for that in my application?Can the mathematics GRE make up for a lack of math courses in my records for an economics PhD application?
If you have a high score on the GRE math subject test it would suggest good mastery of undergraduate mathematics. That might help get you in (depending upon where you apply) but they still may want you to take math courses to make up deficiencies.
The hard part is that it is not easy to get a high score on the GRE subject test without knowing the undergraduate curriculum reasonably well. Many with a good BA or BS in math do not do particularly well on the test.
Now, my comments above refer to the GRE math subject test. The math part of the regular GRE does not cover subjects such as calculus (which are important in economics), so a high score there might not be good enough (again, depending upon where you are applying -- some universities might be more willing to accept you and let you make up the math than others).
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