Section outline

  • Dr. Md Iqbal Alam Khan

    Professor

    Department of Development Studies
    Email: iqbalakhan12@gmail.com

    Cell: 01713311004 

    Google Meet Class Link: http://meet.google.com/ppw-hshq-mgt


    • Course Learning Objectives

      CLO1
      Critically analyze how poverty and development can be understood, measured and analysed at global, national and local/grassroots levels.
      CLO2
      Explore the linkages between poverty alleviation and development from a historical, theoretical, and institutional perspective. 
      CLO3
      Investigate key strategies and factors for promoting development and poverty reduction with practices.
      CLO4
      Examine why some poor countries have been successful in catching up to industrialized countries in per capita income, while others are falling behind, and why half of the world’s population remains poor.
      CLO5
      Explain the discussion and debate of best practices in poverty reduction nationally and internationally.


    • Syllabus and Lecture Plan

      • Lecture 1: Introducing the course 
      Lecture 2. Introduction to Poverty 
      Lecture 3-4: Methods of Measuring Poverty: Challenges and Development 
      Lecture 5: Class Test-1 
      Lecture 6: Rural and Urban Poverty 
      Lecture 7-8: System and structure for poverty reduction 
      Lecture 9-10: The Role of Public Institutions and Organization in poverty alleviation 
      Lecture 11: Class Test-2 
      Lecture 12: Midterm Exam 
      Lecture 13: NGOs & MicroCredits 
      Lecture 14-15: Foreign Aid & Development Partners 
      Lecture 16: Presentation and Assignment 
      Lecture 17: Social Development and Poverty 
      Lecture 18: Class Test-3 
      Lecture 19: Corruption and Mismanagement 
      Lecture 20-21: Conflicts & Refugee Crisis 
      Lecture 22: Final Examination