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ECOP6018: Economic Development: Growth and Wellbeing
2025 unit information
This unit explores the processes and social dynamics underpinning economic development. You will engage critically with key themes - such as social policy, employment, migration, aid, and finance - informing the discourse of ‘development economics’, and reflect on alternative approaches to understanding the connections, tensions and contradictions between economic development, growth and wellbeing. Key debates within this scholarship are considered in their historical context and contending theoretical approaches are surveyed in relation to contemporary dynamics and debates in global development.
Unit details and rules
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Arts and Social Sciences
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Political Economy |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. critically engage with competing conceptual frameworks for understanding broader processes of economic development
- LO2. challenge dominant explanations or narratives for contentious and significant social phenomena
- LO3. develop and articulate substantive arguments capable of explicating complex and dynamic social processes.
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Semester 2 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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