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Roddy's Courses
Högskolan Väst, Rhodes UniversityIPPE14 Weekly Milestones
1. Three presentations: Meaning and Measures of Development, Social Inequality (Gini Index), Measures of Development (Venn Diagrams). Two videos: Hans Rosling 2006 (Video), Nic Marks (Video). One weblink: Gapminder (Link). One eBook: Beyond Economic Growth (eBook).
2. Four Presentations: Evolution of the World Economy since 1500, Economic Growth and Development into the Second Millennium, The Last Kondratieff Wave and Future Prospects, Material Consumption. Three videos: Inside Job, Money as Debt, Story of Stuff. Two eBooks: Dicken's Global Shift (Chapter 4), People and the Planet (Chapter 3).
IPPE 16 Milestones
Week 38
Course material: China's Demography; India's Demography; Demographic Futures.
Videos: China-One Child Policy; Sterilising India.
eBook: People and the Planet Chapter 2 (Sections 2.4 and 2.5).
Week 37
Course material: Economic Growth and Long Wave Cycles; The Last Kondratieff Wave; Material Consumption; Demographic Definitions; Demographic Transition.
Videos: The Story of Stuff; Population Pyramids.
eBook: People and the Planet Chapter 2 (Sections 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3).
Weblinks: Understanding Exponential Growth; Ecological Footprint; Material World; Ecological Footprint; The Water We Eat; 200 Years of Population Growth in Sweden.
Week 36
Course material: GDP/HDI Measures of Development; Social Inequality - Gini Index; Measures of Development - Venn Diagrams; Antecedents to Modern Economic Growth
Videos (in-class): UNDP Human Development Report 2010; Nic Marks - Happy Planet Index; World Population; Money as Debt
Class activities: Calculate GDP; Venn Diagrams of six development measures
Videos (self-study): Inside Job (documentary about global financial crisis of 2008)
Weblink: Gapminder World
eBook: Read Beyond Economic Growth Chapters 2 and 15
Week 35 (starting Friday 2 September)
Read the three documents in 'Preliminaries'. Take the Oxford Practice Grammar online test linked from 'Improving your English' document.
Course material: Meaning and Measures of Development.
Class activity: Ignorance Survey
Video: Hans Rosling 2006: Stats that reshape your world-view
eBook: Read Beyond Economic Growth Chapter 1
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