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FLACSO Ecuador presents a course on development from a gender perspective |
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FLACSO, the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences at Ecuador, will offer an open course on “Economy and gender: contributions to wellbeing and development from a gender perspective.” The course will be taught by Professor Amaia Pérez Orozco, who has a PhD in Economics from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid and is an Associate Researcher at UN-INSTRAW.
The course will give an overview of the main economic transformations that are taking place today and the economic policies that are currently being proposed. It will explain the processes of neoliberal policies and their impact on development, with a special focus on Latin America and the Caribbean. The objective of the course is to reevaluate the current economic situation from a gender perspective, looking at criticisms and proposals for transformation.
The course aims to identify the ways that most economic theories are skewed, and how this hinders a comprehensive and accurate understanding of the economy and of social processes of inclusion and exclusion. The course will also offer conceptual and methodological tools for how to correct these distortions.
Course registration is open until 10 July 2009.
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