Business and Global Development
DEVS 353
300-Level Courses
3 Units
In-person
3
one-way Exclusions
Lecture, tutorial, and private study
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Course Description
Over the past several decades, business - particularly large multinational corporations - have come to play an increasingly dominant role in global development. This course will interrogate the structures, processes and practices employed by corporations as the forge new partnerships with states, global development organizations and corporations.
Learning Outcomes
- Identify and conceptualize the key tensions (productive and destructive) between business goals and development in the 21st Century at the global, national and local levels, particularly with regard to questions of power.
- Assess, contrast, and apply different global political economy (GPE) perspectives to understand the causes and outcomes of these tensions between development and business goals.
- Analyze case studies of these business-development tensions across a range of settings introduced by the instructor and integrate these with the macro-level (GPE) questions raised earlier.
- Synthesize the analysis of case studies and policy documents with GPE perspectives to generate and evaluate normative (prescriptive) positions towards sustainable development practices through, for example, exploring how global risk management operates on the ground.