MRS/XGDAF Geography and Development of Africa and Middle East

Lecturer: Jaromír Harmáček
Lecture: 1 hour/week + exercise 2 hours/week
Credits: 6
Winter semester
Form of course completion: course credit, exam

The aim of the course is to critically examine the Africa-specific development opportunities and limits for development mostly from economic, but also social, geographical and political perspectives. Attention is paid to regional division and geographical factors of African development (including the issue of natural resources); historical determinants of the region´s development (slave trade, colonialism, ways of decolonization, post-colonialism conflicts); social aspects and factors (human capital, poverty and human development in Africa) and economic determinants of African development (factors of economic growth in Africa, region´s position in international economic relations, prospects for economic integration).