| Educational guide Faculty of Business and Economics |
english |
| International Markets (2016) |
 Subjects |
| EMERGING ECONOMIES |
| Contents |
| IDENTIFYING DATA | 2018_19 |
| Subject | EMERGING ECONOMIES | Code | 16675202 | |||||
| Study programme |
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Cycle | 2nd | |||||
| Descriptors | Credits | Type | Year | Period | ||||
| 3 | Optional | 2Q |
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| Competences | Learning outcomes | Contents |
| Planning | Methodologies | Personalized attention |
| Assessment | Sources of information | Recommendations |
| Topic | Sub-topic |
| 1. Introduction | 1.1. The changes in the world economy. 1.2. Economies, countries and emerging powers. 1.3. The BRICS |
| 2. Development Theories | 2.1. Introduction to the Economy of Development 2.2. Orthodox approaches 2.3. Heterodox approaches |
| 3. The role of the agriculture in development | 3.1. Structural change in development process 3.2. The World Agri-Food System 3.3. Agriculture in the development process 3.4. Agricultural development or rural development? |
| 4. Integration in Global Value Chains |
4.1. Introduction 4.2. Analysing 'global value chains' 4.3. Measurement of value chains (TIVA) |
| 5. Background: where do they come from? | 5.1. Latin America until the 80s 5.2. Different applications of socialism: USSR, China and India 5.3. Aparheid in South Africa |
| 6. Economic take off and its policies | 6.1. Background: the NPI 6.2. Brazil: the dragon of Latin America? 6.3. China: glorious thirty years 6.4. India: the emergency at a slow pace 6.5. Russia: shock therapy and the transition 6.6. South Africa: an evolving economy |
| 7. BRICS development paths. | 7.1. Human potential: the role of demography 7.2. The scientific and technical potential. 7.3. The productivity of work 7.4. Income and size of the domestic market 7.5. The social protection systems 7.6. The growth models |
| 8. Crisis and future prospects | 8.1. 2009 Crisis and its impact on the BRICS 8.2. Risks in emerging countries 8.3. BRICS, the new economic pole? |
