About Dr. Róbinson Rojas Sandford:
[Books] [Research]
[Expertise] [Papers/Notes]Teaching in Britain 1985-2002:
(Open University, University of East
London, and other universities in the UK)
(undergraduate level)
(postgraduate level)
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Teaching in Britain 2001- to
date :
( University College London (Development Planning Unit), and other universities in the UK )
(postgraduate level)
- Theories and Perspectives on Environment and Development
- Local and Global with a focus on NGO education
- Development Administration: theory, method and practice
- Management and Planning for Development: International and National Dimensions
- The economics of urbanisation
- Urban Development and Economics
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Books: árcel
Latin
America: Blockages to Development
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- academia.edu
Education:
BSc, MPhil, PhD
University teaching experience:
Chile, People's Republic of China, and Britain
Areas of expertise:
Chile, People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Latin America, South-East and East Asia,
Strategies for Industrialization in Latin America and East Asia,
Development Economics,
Political Economy of Development
The World Economy and Globalization,
The role of the state in styles of development,
Dependency Theory,
Structuralism,
Microeconomics and Macroeconomics,
Urban Economics and Development
Urbanization and Development
Urbanization and the world economy
Epistemology,
Computer programming, and
Learning and Teaching Systems via Internet
Completed research:
- The US military-industrial complex in the sixties:
effects on US foreign policy. The case of Latin America.
- The crisis of the Brazilian Catholic Church during the sixties. A new political role.
- US transnationals and their involvement in the Brazilian economy up to the sixties. The
coup d'etat in 1964.
- Chilean industrialization 1940-1968: social and political transformation.
- The role of U.S. capital in the Chilean manufacturing sector: 1950-1968.
- Chilean copper industry and balance of payments: 1915-1972.
- Modern social structure in Chile: a case of dependent capitalist development
- Monopoly capital, domestic and foreign, in the Chilean economy.
- The role of the Chilean army and the U.S. government in the coup d'etat against Allende
in 1973
- Distribution of income in urban and rural China: 1950-1974. The appearance of a private
market. Political consequences.
- Class stratification in rural China: 1956-1976: class polarization and the cultural
revolution.
- Class stratification in urban China 1960-1976: the emergence of a new ruling class (the
communist elite).
- The political economy of people's communes in China (1958 to 1978)
- Bureaucratic Socialism: the case of China 1956-1977
- Chile: the economic model of the dictatorship 1973-1990
- Social blockages to development in Latin America, (Ph.D. dissertation)
- Unemployment in China from 1978 to 1994: the making of redundant population to create an
efficient economic system.
- Natural Rate of Unemployment and distribution of income in industrialized and LD
countries. Testing dependency theory 1.
- Transnational corporations and LDC's utilization of domestic factors of production: the
effects of globalization. Testing dependency theory 2.
- The political economy of social exclusion in the European Union and the United States
- Structural adjustment and sustainable development in Latin America
- Unemployment and economic growth in China, 1980-1999. Testing dependency theory 3.
- Logic programming in computers and the process of human learning
- Structural adjustment in Chile
- Poverty and unemployment in a globalized free-market. Testing dependency theory 4.
- Agribusiness and globalization in Sub-Saharan Africa
- The process of globalization in post-bureaucratic socialist China. 1980-1998
- Rural unemployment, urban underemployment and the Chinese capitalist model
- The effects of monetarist policies in Latin America during the period 1975-1990
- A globalized economy as a barrier to sustainable development
- State, civil society and development in decolonized Africa
Research in progress:
* The new style of development in Latin America:
globalization and further dependency. The case of Chile 1974-1989 and 1990-2002
* The socio-economic effects of globalization as explained by dependency theory. It
includes analysis of the relationship between market, states and international capital.
* Global Value Chains and World Cities
Networks: the new geography of the world economy
Publications:
Books published in Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Panama, Spain and the United States by major
publishing houses ( i.e. Harper and Row in the US). Scores of articles and papers in major
magazines and newspapers in Latin America, Spain, Germany and the United States). Main
subjects: China, and Latin America as outlined in the sections on research.
Visiting Examinations:
1992-1997
External Examiner at Birbeck College,University of London, for Development Economics.
2001-2003
Visiting Examiner at DPU, University College London, University of London, to the Board of
Examiners in MSc Development and Planning.
Consultancy:
1986-1999
BBC World Service ( China, South East Asia and Latin America)
1989-1999
Centre for Chinese Studies, LSBU
2003-2006
Globalization and Europeanisation Network in Education website.
(http://www.genie-tn.net)
Member of the Advisory Board of the
Institute for Policy Research and Development
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