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Basic knowledge on economics
The capitalist economic problem: what to produce, how to produce, for whom to produce. Resource allocation: alternative
approaches, the free market versus central planning. The meaning of "resource
allocation" and the main alternative methods of allocating resources.
Concepts for Review: Economic resources, resource allocation, production possibility
curves, supply, demand, competition, profitability and the free market, central planning
and bureaucracy, factors of production, distribution of income, factor mobility
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From Finance
and Development - March 2006
Regressions:
Why Are Economists Obsessed with Them?
Rodney Ramcharan
Regression analysis is a statistical tool used by economists to
quantify the relationship between one variable and the other
variables that are thought to explain it. These days, running
thousands of regressions is commonplace and easy. But what exactly
are regressions and what are their potential pitfalls?
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Rojas: Sustainable development in a globalized
economy? The odds. 1999 |
| Róbinson Rojas: Sustainable development in a
globalized economy. 1997 |
| Róbinson Rojas: Making sense of development
studies |
| Róbinson Rojas: Notes on the philosophy
of the capitalist system |
| Róbinson Rojas: Notes on economics:
assuming scarcity |
| Róbinson Rojas: Notes on economics: about
obscenities, poverty and inequality |
| Róbinson Rojas: Notes on structural
adjustment programmes |
| Róbinson Rojas: Agenda 21 revisited
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| Róbinson Rojas: 15 years of monetarism in
Latin America: time to scream |
| Róbinson
Rojas: Latin America: a failed industrial revolution |
| Róbinson
Rojas: Latin America: the making of a fractured society |
| Róbinson
Rojas: Latin America: a dependent mode of production |
Róbinson
Rojas: The 'adjustment' of the world economy
Róbinson Rojas: The transnational
corporate system in the late 1990s
Róbinson Rojas: A market-friendly
strategy for development
Róbinson Rojas: Notes on agribusiness in
the 1990s
Róbinson Rojas: Transnational
corporations in developing countries
Róbinson Rojas: Latin America: blockages
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University College
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Development Planning Unit
Management and planning for development:
international and national dimensions
This module introduces basic notions of
development management and administration, state, market and bureaucracy, and the role of
NGOs in the development process. It places national development in the context of the
international division of labour and examines alternatives to hegemonic development
practices. It critically reviews the recent history of international aid, particularly its
implications for poverty reduction, growth and equity. The national dimensions of
development are also critically explored, particularly in terms of a range of development
trends and interventions such as national and regional development planning and key
aspects of local, metropolitan and regional development.
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University College London
Development Planning Unit
Urban Development and economics
Covers the following topics: prospect for development;
economic growth and development ; the market economy and market forces; International
trade and investment ; role of the state in economic development; trends in urbanisation
and the effects of policies; migration; urban agglomeration economies and diseconomies,
cities and structural adjustment; roles of multilateral development agencies and foreign
aid; role of economic analysis in urban development;...
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Microeconomics: an
introduction
After a general introduction to the history of
economic thought the focus of the module will be on the micro-economic theories of
exchange, production and distribution, and the application of these theories to real world
situations and, particularly to differentials of welfare in civil society. Special
emphasis will be given to the influence of the state as the operator of markets and its
new role in the age of "globalization"... It makes heavy use of information
technology to familiarize the student with economic modelling and analysis.
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Macroeconomics: an
introduction
... introduces the students to the basic concepts of
macroeconomic analysis and theory, and lays the foundation for management of the economy,
which is concerned with the application of theoretical concepts to the study of
macroeconomic policies. Also looks at the the interaction between economic policy on the
one hand, and the balance of payment and exchange rates, on the other hand. Finally it
includes a REVIEW of the current state of relationships between the major trading blocks
(USA, Europe, and Japan), and Less Developed Countries.
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Development Studies. Part 1
...introduces the student to the study of the
political economy of developing societies in Africa, Asia, and Latin America using
comparative analysis to assess the effects of colonialism, both Western European and
Japanese, and U.S. imperialism. It looks at contemporary problems of development in
accordance with the mainstream theoretical tools: modernization theory and dependency
theory. Emphasis on globalization allows a good understanding of the role of transnational
corporations in the world economy.
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Development Studies. Part 2
... it develops ideas and concepts related to
the study of less developed societies as part of a globalized political, economic,
ideological and cultural system. The option addresses issues facing developing countries
in the world political economy of the last half of the XX century and beyond. An analysis
of compelling contemporary issues will be combined with an emphasis on cultural,
social and economic processes and change.
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Development Studies.
Part3
This module introduce students to the political
economy of the world economy as a discipline dealing with relations of dependency,
interdependency and domination between nations. Two theoretical approaches: modernisation
theory and dependency theory. A substantial section of the module will be devoted to
an assessment of the effects of colonisation, decolonisation, neo-colonisation and
globalisation on the styles of development in Asian, African and Latin American societies.
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Development Studies. Part 4
... it provides the student with a
description, understanding and explaining of the central role of the state in the process
of development, its relation with civil society, and especially its articulation with the
world economy as dominated transnational corporations supported by their home countries'
state. The module attempts to analyse the different styles of development based upon the
triple alliance between the state, domestic capitalist class and international capitalist
class
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Research Methodology and
Development Studies
Considering that research on development is focused on
discrete but interrelated development issues at the micro and macro level (i.e.,
sustainability, globalization, poverty reduction, unequal social relations, structural
adjustment, environmental protection, human development, participation, institutional
development), which calls for a multidisciplinary perspective leading to the creation of
interdisciplinary methods of interpretation and intervention as a complement to the
methodologies applied by the individual disciplines involved, this module makes use
of quantitative and qualititative approaches to analyse the process of scientific
inquiry as related to development studies.
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The process of globalization
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