2024

Development Challenges

Name: Development Challenges
Code: ECN15143O
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area: Economy

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

The student must know, understand, analyse at the end of the unit: the conceptual bases of the holistic concept of Development, distinguish impacts on the Environment of the development process, must relate the international contribution of Organizations to the same process, and, finally, be able to evaluate the effects of development or lack thereof and the role of migratory networks and NGOs effects on development.
The student must go from being scientific papers to producing a final group report on the program's development themes.
The idea of promoting hermeneutic critical thinking in discursive analysis and/or possibly quantitative data analysis skills on development (well-being, wealth, employment, inequality) applied to the reality of your country/area is also promoted.
Another skill to acquire is the creation and promotion of the student's ability to network, within the CPLP, with Lusophony as a scientific vehicle for study and employment.

Contents

Part I – Concepts
1- Introduction: object and objectives
2- Theoretical-conceptual framework and historical aspects of Development
Part II- Impacts of development on the environment
3- OECD Sustainable Development Assessment: Principles, Rules, Indicators, Green Investment and Circular Economy
4- Sustainable Development: the end of the Economy... as we know it.
Part III- Institutional Aspects
5- UN Contribution to Peace and Security
6- Role of BRICS in the global order
7- The EU and relations with the rest of the world
8- CPLP and economics
Part IV- Development Effects
9- African Regional Integration and Development in Cape Verde
10- The case of Economic Development in Mozambique
11- Challenges for the economic integration of Latin America
12-The case of Brazil's economic development: the case of biofuels and agribusiness
and the case of global value chains
13-Dynamics in labor markets and economic development
14-Migrations and Development, NGOs and Challenges

Teaching Methods

UC taught remotely with presentation of subjects and discussion. Moodle will be used as a resource in organizing the Course and accessing materials and will be the core of teacher/student interaction. Depending on the operating model and respective methodologies, autonomous work, oral communication will be encouraged, through the presentation and discussion of individual or collective work (collaborative work), stimulating creativity with the exposure of own reflections, developing students' own reflection, especially through self-evaluation and critical sense. We will seek to relate learning with diverse real contexts and experiences, considering the fact that the target audience comes from the PALOP with a wide variety of sociocultural experiences and ways of inserting the countries into the global economy. In this way, focusing learning in real contexts, where students will propose solutions to issues inherent to their realities with intervention projects.

Assessment

The final assessment is based on the assessment of a written work on topics included in the syllabus, and can be carried out individually or in a group (no more than three students). This work will be accompanied by tutorial guidance and will be anchored in research on the topic, from which a document will be prepared that will comply with requirements to be defined in terms of structure, content and dimension. Comments and suggestions will be made on initial versions of the work with the aim of improving it. These works will be presented orally and discussed in the final sessions. The person responsible for the UC will centralize the evaluation process, taking into account the written document, its presentation and discussion. The classification must be higher than 10 points for the student to obtain approval. The evaluation processes corresponding to the appeal exams and special and extraordinary periods will take place in the form of a written exam, on dates to be defined. Taking into account the universe of students (i.e., coming from different Portuguese-speaking countries), some flexibility and, eventually, some adjustments to what was planned will be necessary.

Teaching Staff