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Considers the role of smaller enterprise - including microenterprise and small/medium enterprise, focussing mainly but not exclusively on the non-agricultural sector, in the development process. Compares the workings of such units to that of larger firms. Identifies factors contributing to the role of small enterprise in employment creation and a more equitable distribution of income, together with policies which can contribute to these outcomes, including various types of micro-credit systems. This course can be counted for Program credit in ECO and ECM Programs.
Prerequisites: ECMA02Y (ECOA02Y) or ECMA03Y (ECOA03Y), ECO100Y
Limited Enrolment: 60
A case study approach which builds on concepts and methodologies introduced in Project Management (IDSC04).
International projects will be examined from the concept stage through to project evaluation. Topics to be examined and
developed will include: the art of effective communication and negotiation; visioning; participatory and rapid rural
appraisal; survey design and implementation; advanced financial management and budgeting; basic bookkeeping and
spreadsheet design and use; advanced environmental impact assessments, gender and development, cross-cultural
effectiveness and results-based management; ethics in development and corporate social responsibility and codes; credit
and microcredit project designs; and human resources management. Management and implementation regimes of NGO's,
development banks, bilateral donors, and international research agencies will be examined. Guest lectures by individuals
directly involved in the aid and development industries and sectors will be used to supplement and complement regular
lectures and tutorials.
Enrolment limit: 60
Prerequisite: IDSC04H or permission of the instructor
Critical perspectives on the effects of traditional and 'new' media on development policy and practice.
Whether during the meetings of the World Bank and the IMF, discussions surrounding the future of Canadian foreign assistance, or the actual implementation of development policy, the media plays an increasingly significant role in the development process. This course seeks to critically examine this role. It will begin by analyzing the emerging structure of media in the global arena. It will follow with an examination of the ways that media-generated images of development and developing countries affect the formulation and implementation of development policy. Events studies will include the Bangladesh cyclones, the Ethiopian drought, and the Zimbabwean land grabs. Issues examined will include female genital mutilation, water scarcity, and the role of World Trade Organization. The course will conclude with an analysis of the potential that 'new' media can have for those who are marginalized from the development process. Material for the course will include academic writings and media texts from newsprint, magazines, and films. Assignments will include a critical and comparative assessment of reporting on a particular development issue and a major research essay.
Two hour class meeting each week.
Enrolment limits: 35
Prerequisite: IDSB01H
An examination of the special problems of rural communities and regions and associated development issues and strategies in the context of both industrialized and developing regions of the world. Particular attention will be paid to the impact of urbanization and globalization on rural economies, societies and environments, to the underlying structural causes of rural marginalisation and to the changes in rural development paradigms over the past fifty years. Following a general overview of these themes, students will have the opportunity to study selected issues in group workshops and individual research projects. Although the final choice of issues will be made by students, it is expected that issues will include problems of agricultural restructuring, sustainable resource management, depopulation and outmigration, women in rural development, community-based and grass-roots development, sustainable rural development strategies, the role of development NGO's, tourism and rural development.
Two hour class meeting each week.
Exclusion: GGRC20
Prerequisites: IDSB01H & IDSB02H. Students in
the Geography Minor Program admitted with permission of the instructor.
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