Demographic dynamics and contemporary socio-economic changes [ LSPED2020 ]
5.0 crédits ECTS
30.0 h
1q
| Teacher(s) |
Wautelet Jean-Marie ;
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| Language |
French
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Place
of the course |
Louvain-la-Neuve
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| Main themes |
The course will be based on research questions demonstrating the complexity of the interrelationships between demographic, economic and social phenomena. Among these research questions :
- Reflexion on the relationships between social and economic development and population growth.
- The role of migration as a strategy for food security in the context of deteriorating living conditions.
- The influence of demographic conditions in industrialized countries on the implementation of economic policies in the 1980s.
- Can a link be established between population growth and changes in social and political structures ?
- Does the demographic North-South gap amplifies the economic gap or is it influenced by it ?
- Is economic growth facilitated by the size of population ?
- Is denatality in western countries a direct consequence of the current pension systems ?
- Are migrations a response to differences in population and economic structures ?
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| Aims |
In-depth understanding of theories and analyses offering a global view of society changes over the last twenty years, and of the interrelationships of demographic, economic, and social phenomena.
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| Other information |
Individual or collective written paper
Portfolio of readings
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Cycle et année
d'étude |
> Master [120] in Population and Development Studies
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Faculty or entity
in charge |
> PSAD
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