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Study programmes 2012-2013Last update : 25/05/2013
SOCI0073-3  Thematic analysis seminars on programmes to combat poverty

Duration :  30h Th
Number of credits :  
Master in Population and Development studies, Research Focus, 2nd year6
Master in Population and Development Studies, Professional Focus in Contemporary China , 2nd year6
Master in Population and Development Studies, Professional Focus in North-South Cooperation , 2nd year6
Lecturer :  Gautier Pirotte, Arnaud Zacharie
Language(s) of instruction :  
French language
Organisation and examination :  
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Course contents :  
This course will get onto the main thematic of contemporary development policies and programs: the poverty reduction strategies.
This course will introduce the poverty reduction strategies in the so-called "developing countries" trying, on the one hand, to replace these programs in an analysis of the practices and strategies of the "international development complex" actors and, on the other hand, to generate a particular socio-anthropological analysis of these programs. For this, the course will adopt these following specific objectives:
(1) To bring a conceptual precision on the concept of poverty (in North and in South) compared to close or derived concepts.
(2) To present the poverty reduction strategies in the international development diary (roots, dimensions, actors).
(3) To present the contemporary mechanisms of poverty reduction strategies in the developing countries at work within in the Millennium Development Goals, in particular.
(4) To approach concretely the poverty reduction strategies through different projects from diverse fields of intervention by showing the acuity of these strategies, the role of the various actors, the economic, political and social stakes.
Learning outcomes of the course :  
Good knowledge of the social, economic, political, cultural or environmental stakes of the reduction poverty policies.
The student must be able of developing a critical approach of the keywords (or buzzwords) of these programs: participation, appropriation, coherence, empowerment, etc.
Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :  
These seminaries are organized following the curse: " Emergent Actors Institutions and Stakes in International Co-operation Programs "
Planned learning activities and teaching methods :  
Theoretical teachings and students' seminars
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :  
Presential.
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Seminars organized by students (student's talks on buzzwords' poverty reduction policies)
Recommended or required readings :  
Regular reading as a preparation of seminaries.
Assessment methods and criteria :  
Written examinations
Evaluation based on talks, courses and complementary readings.
Training(s) :  
Organizational remarks :  
Contacts :  
Gautier PIROTTE, Professeur Tel : 04/366.27.80 Fax : 04/366.47.51 E-mail : Gautier.Pirotte@ulg.ac.be
Arnaud ZACHARIE, maître de conférences E-mail : arnaud.zacharie@cncd.be
Secretariat ISHS: Nathalie Pulgar Phone: 04/366.36.18 E-mail : npulgar@ulg.ac.be


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