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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Economics and Business |
| Grao en Economía |
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| The World Economy |
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| Identifying Data | 2020/21 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | The World Economy | Code | 611G01011 | |||||||||||
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 1st four-month period |
Second | Obligatory | 6 | ||||||||||
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| Learning outcomes | Study programme competences | ||
| 1. To identify the strenghts and weaknesses of the world economies and position themselves in the main current debates on the current situation and trends in the world economy 2. To understand and analyze the influence of population growth, natural resources, accumulation of physical and human capital, technology, institutions and inequalities in the economic development of the different countries 3. To know and handle the statistical and documentary sources related to the world and Spanish economy 4. To apply the tools of economic analysis to the study of the world economy 5. To develop the ability to use economic principles to understand the current economic events 6. To use correctly the economic vocabulary most linked to the course | A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 A8 A9 A10 A11 A12 |
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| 1.To know the basic features of the world economy and understand the main concepts of development in its economic, social and environmental dimensions. 2. To know the interrelations between the production, income and expenditure flows, to be familiar with the main macromagnitudes of the economy 3. To know the main economic models, at an introductory level 4. To know and understand the importance of the long-term growth rate and the magnitude of income differences between countries 5. To establish basic knowledge of the main aggregates and their systematization through quantitative analysis instruments such as the National Accounts (SEC) and the Balance of Payments 6. To know the phenomenon of globalization, its potential and its risks for the development of countries 7. To know and value the role of international institutions in charge of regulating international economic relations, especially commercial and financial ones, and their future challenges 8. To know the approaches related to the sustainability of development and the strategies that have been designed in recent years for this purpose | A1 A7 A9 A13 |
B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 B7 B8 B9 |
C1 C3 |
| 1. Ethical commitment to work and society 2. Ability to work as a team 3. Ability to be interested in economic problems and their solution 4. Ability to think and express an opinion in relation to the most relevant economic problems 5. Ability to search, filter, process and interpret economically diverse sources of information (bibliography and statistics), both in Spanish and English, using different tools 6. Capacity for critical thinking 7. Active actitude to current events that affect the economic environment of the world | C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 |
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