The minor Development and Global Challenges explores a number of burning issues in the global world relating to environment and sustainability, poverty and unequal economic growth, migration, diversity and inequality, urbanization and the global political economy.
The minor addresses the policy level and local responses to contemporary global challenges through an understanding of “development” as a field that not only pertains to the Global South but also to Western countries. The minor critically assesses both earlier conceptualizations and approaches of development and discusses their successes and failures.