Master
2023/2024
Global Economic Development & Sustainable Development Goals
Type:
Compulsory course (Environmental Economics and Sustainable Development)
Area of studies:
Economics
Delivered by:
Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs
When:
1 year, 1, 2 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of one campus
Master’s programme:
Environmental Economics and Sustainable Development
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
6
Contact hours:
44
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The discipline aims at providing students with comprehensive understanding of current global challenges for humankind, the existing contradictions, and ways to solve them. Particular attention within the course will be paid to the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals. The discipline includes an overview and analysis of the key problems of the global economy, an assessment of the main factors that determine the trends of its development, and an overview of the most important research methods of economic science.
Learning Objectives
- explain the specifics of the goals, current challenges and global governance framework related to them
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Able to learn, to acquire new knowledge and skills.
- can work with the information: to find, assess and use the necessary information from different sources
- Defines SDGs and their implication for the global economy
- Knows key challenges for the SDGs
- Uses concepts and indicators of various forms of inequality
- defines the concept of development assistance
Course Contents
- Introduction: history of SDGs
- Global Governance and Inequality
- Human capital: understanding poverty and importance of education
- Global public health: inequality and pandemic
- Growth and development
- Infrastructure challenges
- Digitalization and inequality
- Measuring SDGs
- Principles of sustainable finance
- The political economy of development assistance
- Key multilateral financial institutions and their contribution to SDGs
- Features of the national development agencies
- SDGs and challenges for BRICS countries
- Current state of SDGs
Interim Assessment
- 2023/2024 2nd module0.5 * Final exam + 0.2 * Presence and activity + 0.3 * Project
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Global governance in transformation : challenges for international cooperation, , 2020
- The white man's burden : why the west's efforts to aid the rest have done so much ill and so little good, Easterly, W., 2007
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- The elusive quest for growth : economists' adventures and misadventures in the tropics, Easterly, W., 2002