Counter visits from more than 160  countries and 1400 universities (details)

The political economy of development
This academic site promotes excellence in teaching and researching economics and development, and the advancing of describing, understanding, explaining and theorizing.
About us- Castellano- Français - Dedication
Home- Themes- Reports- Statistics/Search- Lecture notes/News- People's Century- Puro Chile- Mapuche

Be an Effective Agent for Change!......study a post-graduate course in Education for Sustainability





Supplementary Digital Study Packs  for modules taught/teach by Róbinson Rojas Sandford at:

1) The Bartlett Development Planning Unit (University College London):
 

Background readers for BENVGDA5: NEO:STRUCTURALISM AND THE DEVELOPMENTAL STATE - Academic year 2017-2018

CREDIT SUISSE: The Global Wealth Databook 2016
World Development Indicators Tables
WDI 2017: Labor Force Structure
WDI 2017: Growth of Output
WDI 2017: Structure of output
WDI 2017: Size of the economy

Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2017. From World Development Indicators

The Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2017 uses maps, charts and analysis to illustrate, trends, challenges and measurement issues related to each of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The Atlas primarily draws on World Development Indicators (WDI) - the World Bank's compilation of internationally comparable statistics about global development and the quality of people's lives.

Given the breadth and scope of the SDGs, the editors have been selective, emphasizing issues considered important by experts in the World Bank's Global Practices and Cross Cutting Solution Areas. Nevertheless, The Atlas aims to reflect the breadth of the Goals themselves and presents national and regional trends and snapshots of progress towards the UN's seventeen Sustainable Development Goals: poverty, hunger, health, education, gender, water, energy, jobs, infrastructure, inequalities, cities, consumption, climate, oceans, the environment, peace, institutions, and partnerships.

Between 1990 and 2013, nearly one billion people were raised out of extreme poverty. Its elimination is now a realistic prospect, although this will require both sustained growth and reduced inequality. Even then, gender inequalities continue to hold back human potential. Undernourishment and stunting have nearly halved since 1990, despite increasing food loss, while the burden of infectious disease has also declined. Access to water has expanded, but progress on sanitation has been slower. For too many people, access to healthcare and education still depends on personal financial means.

To date the environmental cost of growth has been high. Accumulated damage to oceanic and terrestrial ecosystems is considerable. But hopeful signs exist: while greenhouse gas emissions are at record levels, so too is renewable energy investment. While physical infrastructure continues to expand, so too does population, so that urban housing and rural access to roads remain a challenge, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. Meanwhile the institutional infrastructure of development strengthens, with more reliable government budgeting and foreign direct investment recovering from a post-financial crisis decline. Official development assistance, however, continues to fall short of target levels.

World Development Indicators 2017

https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/26447

This year the World Development Indicators database has been improved to include more indicators that cover the Sustainable Development Goals and more data disaggregated by sex, age, wealth quintile, and urban or rural location. New data include access to clean cooking fuels and the number of industrial design applications registered globally. This edition reflects two major structural changes to World Development Indicators: • Poverty and shared prosperity, previously part of World view, is now a standalone section. Global highlights presented in World view encompass data from all six thematic sections. • Data on the Sustainable Development Goals are now presented in a new companion publication, Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2017, which analyzes and visualizes World Development Indicators data to explore progress toward the goals for 2030 and catalyzes discussion of measurement issues and data needs.


From The Socialist Register - 1997 - By Paul Cammack
Cardoso Political Project in Brazil: the limits of social democracy

World Investment Report 2017 - Investment and the Digital Economy - (UNCTAD/WIR/2017) - 07 Jun 2017, 110.0 KB
- DA1.- Managing 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.

- DA5.- The Development State: planning for development

This module critically reviews the quest for economic and socially efficient development states in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean since 1940s. As such, this module will explore the theoretical basis and practice of state led approaches to development since the 1940s. Its main conceptual framework encapsulates the dynamic of two interrelated socio-economic systems:
A) capitalist development and the state, and
B) the national and international synergies created by the interaction between markets, civil society and the state and its effects on planning for development.
Case studies will be included where necessary.

- UE1.- Urban Development and Economics

This module critically analyse 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;...

2) Education for Sustainability Programme (LSBU):

- Local and Global with a focus on NGO education
- Theories and Perspectives on Environment and Development

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Back to World Economic and Social Situation and Prospects

Ethics, Development and Economics
Planning for Development
Urbanization
Migration
Agrarian Policies
Economic Policies
Rural Development
Human Development
Economic inequality
Poverty
Aid
Globalization
Development
Food
Land Grab


Sustainable Development
Education for Sustainable Development
Climate Change
Environment

State, civil society and markets
Elites
Developmental State
Neo-liberal State
Public Administration
Governance
New Public Management
Structural Adjustment Programmes


Integrated International Production
Global Value Chains
International Trade
Foreign Direct Investment
The Triad
Transnational Corporations
Imperialism
Factor Payments from Abroad
Transfer-pricing

Economic Growth
Economic cycles
Modernization Theory
Neo-liberalism
Economic Structuralism
Dependency Theory
Peripheral capitalism
Development Economics
The Future of Development Economics
The Need to Rethink Development Economics
The New Economy in Development -----...more

World Economic and Social Situation and Prospects
Global Financial and Economic Crisis 07-09

Africa
Asia
China
Latin America
Chile

Human Development Reports
World Development Indicators
World Development Reports
World Investment Reports--- ...more

Public Action - Social Movements

Basic knowledge on economics
Sociodynamics
Economic Literacy
Karl Marx Adam Smith

On Capitalist Economic and Political Terrorism

Notes for lectures
Papers / Notes
Books
UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics
Statistics 1
Statistics 2

Calculator/Conversion/Exchange
Glossaries
Dictionaries


Andre Gunder Frank website

The murder of Allende
Puro Chile. The Memory of the People

Project for the First People's Century

World Clock
Dedication
About us


RRojas Databank is a member of Development Gateway hosted by The World Bank

Education for Sustainability
Postgraduate courses on
Environment and
Development Education at
London South Bank University

- Part time distance learning
- Full time at the University

- Come visit us at www.lsbu.ac.uk/efs

 
 


Back to Global Economic Prospects for Developing Countries


UNCTAD areas of work:
Globalization and Development
Development of Africa
Least Developed Countries
Landlocked Developing Countries
Small Island Developing States
International Trade and
Commodities

Services Infrastructure
Investment, Technology and
Enterprise Development


The following databases on-line are available:
Commodity Price Statistics
Foreign Direct Investment
Handbook of Statistics
ICT Statistics
Millennium Indicators
TRAINS

Digital Library:
-- News
-- Main publications
-- UNCTAD Series
-- Basic documents
-- Issues in Brief
-- Newsletters
-- Statistical databases
-- Globalization and
----- Development Strategies

-- Economic Development in
----- Africa

-- International trade
-- Dispute Settlement - Course
----- Modules

-- Investment, Technology and
-----Enterprise Development

-- Services Infrastructure for
--- Development and Trade
----- Efficiency

-- Monographs on Port
----- Management

-- Technical Cooperation
-- Discussion papers
-- G-24 Discussion papers
-- Prebisch Lectures
-- Transnational Corporations
----- Journal

-- Publications Survey 2006-
-----2007


 
 
Other related themes:
- Aid
- Bureaucracy
- Debt
- Decentralization
- Dependency theory
- Development
- Development Economics
- Economic Policies
- Employment/Unemployment
- Foreign Direct Investment
- Gender
- Human Rights
- Human Development
- Hunger
- Inequality/social exclusion
- Informal sector
- Labour Market
- Microfinance
- Migration
- Poverty
- Privatization
- PRSP
- State/Civil Society/
---Development

- Sustainable Development
- Transnational Corporations
- Urbanization

- Complete list of development themes