| CODE | PPL2161 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Development in Contemporary Societies | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Policy, Politics and Governance | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | Study-unit Objective: This area purposes to analyse development under a perspective which parallels the economic one: including the perspective of the 'social', 'cultural' and 'political' aspects. Study-unit Content: Development is often narrowly defined in terms of economic progress and measured in terms of the increment of national output and wealth through industrialization. In this course, development is widely perceived as the progress of all aspects of human life and the whole of humankind. The issues taken into consideration include the distribution of wealth (on both the national and international levels), cultural patrimony and change, and human liberty. Particular focus will be placed on the debate centering around Modernization Theory and Dependency Theory and subsequent corpus of further empirical and theoretical literature. The development experience of Malta will be taken into consideration as a focal point. Reading List: - ALLEN,T., and THOMAS, A. (2000) Poverty and Development in the 21st Century, Oxford University Press, Oxford. - DIXON, J. and MACAROV, D. (1998) Poverty: A Persistent Global Reality, Routledge, London. - GOLDSMITH, E. (1998) The Way: An Ecological World View, University of Georgia Press, Georgia. - HALL, A. and MIDGLEY, J. (1998) Development Policies: Sociological Perspectives, Manchester Union Press, Manchester. - PIERSON, C. (1998) beyond the Welfare State?: The New Political Economy of Welfare, second edition, The Pensylvania State University Press, Pensylvania. - SCHUURMAN, F. (ed) (1998) Beyond the Impasse: New Directions in Development Theory, Zed Books, London. - SEN, A. (2000 Development as Freedom, Anchor Books, New York. - UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (UNDP), Human Development Report, various issues, Oxford University Press, Oxford. - WORLD BANK, World Development Report, various issues, Oxford University Press, Oxford. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture, Seminar and Tutorial | ||||||||
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