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Contemporary issues in development policy: a comparative approach [ LSPED1213 ]


5.0 crédits ECTS  30.0 h   2q 

Teacher(s) Ansoms An ; Baudin Thomas (compensates Ansoms An) ;
Language French
Place
of the course
Louvain-la-Neuve
Main themes The course analyses the social challenge of development by examining the complex relations between liberalisation, growth, poverty and inequalities from a development perspective. A comparative approach is used to investigate issues resulting from globalisation in various regions of the world and to identify common issues of development in northern, southern and eastern regions.
Aims The aim of this course is to make students aware of general issues in development policy, through critical analysis of the key issues stimulating the current debate on globalisation.

The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.

Content The course gives students an overview of worldwide changes in economic and social conditions since the beginning of the 1980s, stressing the dual process of integration/ exclusion at work in the global economy, which simultaneously produces opportunities for growth and social fragmentation and inequalities. The course analyses the principal phenomena at work within the framework of globalisation and their effects on the socio-economic structures of the various societies. It also analyses critically the principal domestic and international policies which need to be implemented to ensure that globalisation benefits everyone and within this framework, takes account of issues of governance. Method: Lectures supplemented by course notes and some compulsory reading.
Other information Spport : syllabus roposed readings
Faculty or entity
in charge
> ESPO
Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)
  Sigle Crédits Prérequis Acquis
d'apprentissage
Minor in Population and Development Studies LSPED100I 5 -
Bachelor in Human and Social Sciences HUSO1BA 5 -
Bachelor in Sociology and Anthropology SOCA1BA 5 -
Bachelor in Political Sciences: General SPOL1BA 5 -
Additionnal module in Geography LGEOG100P 4 -


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