EDM3104 Entrepreneurial solutions to global poverty

Despite enormous increases in global wealth and phenomenal technological progress, wide spread wide widespread poverty has remained, inequality Poverty has increased, and the global governance system appears unable to address these major Problems. This course will provide students with the tools to appreciate these persistent global challenges. It provides insights in the causes of global poverty and inequality, the relevant global governance institutions, and the local solutions to address exclusion that have emerged across the globe. The explanations will draw on multiple social science disciplines, including economics, sociology and anthropology, political science, and international law. However, the course does not require a background in any of these disciplines. 

Course Objectives  
This course will:

• Provide students with an introduction to the analysis of global poverty
• Provide students with an insight into the main concepts of poverty and inequality, and alternative explanations on the persistence of growing global inequalities. 
• It will give students an overview of major trends in wealth accumulation, in different regions, 
• Helps students know how growing social problems of inequality are directly associated with patterns of development

Learning Outcomes
Students will be able to: 

• Assess global trends in poverty and impoverishment; 
• Comprehend and apply various conceptualizations of poverty, vulnerability and social exclusion, analyze the multidimensional manifestations of poverty, and have an insight into the position of women and children as particularly vulnerable groups; 
• Develop conceptual knowledge of the design, potentialities and limits of current poverty reduction schemes and programmes at macro, meso and micro levels; 
• Identify alternative strategies, policy interventions and innovative subaltern responses aimed at eliminating poverty on the basis of principles of gender justice and social and economic justice.