Sustainable Development

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Course Overview

The Sustainable Development course will explore development theories and interrogate relationships between development, economy, poverty, democracy and equity.

Learning Outcomes

• Be familiar with development terminology, concepts and definitions
• Be able to describe various development philosophies and schools of thought such as Marx, Weber, Keynes, Durkheim etc
• Understand the relationships between sustainable development, democracy, poverty, equity, governance and political economy
• Be able to describe the role of state in developing and developed countries
• Be familiar with success factors of the fastest growing developing countries
• Be able to analyse and critique public policies aiming at achieving sustainable development
• Have an understanding of advantages and disadvantages of foreign aid driven development

Duration

• 2 days contact time facilitation and group activities

Please Note:

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