Issue 28, February 2021

AbstractThis paper presents the teaching experience developed in the two subjects of the teaching unit of Public Economics, in the Degree in Business Administration and Management at the University of San Pablo CEU, specifically in International and Spanish Tax System I and II. The proposal was designed and implemented in a progressive and homogeneous way in both subjects. However, we took into account the students' previous knowledge and their personal maturity.  The modifications introduced have sought to improve our students' learning, bringing them closer to professional practice, allowing them to acquire not only knowledge but also skills that they will need in their professional future. In this sense, the changes have been aimed at developing skills such as: the capacity for analysis, reasoning and synthesis, collaborative work (with peer assessment), oral expression, creativity and autonomous learning.Experience shows that with the training activities proposed, students feel more motivated and committed to their own learning, which translates into an improvement in their academic results, as well as in the teaching quality of the unit's teachers.Keywords:

The complexity of designing successful public policies requires the consideration of multiple aspects, reflecting the very diversity of the socio-economic environment. This paper shows the experience of teaching economics as an essential matter for students of a 's degree in social policies, which is designed in the context of an educational innovation group integrated by university professors in the Area of Economic Analysis at different Spanish and international universities. The students also come from different scientific areas and countries, participating in both face-to-face and online teaching modalities. In this context, a multidisciplinary approach is required, with a dynamic and open teaching methodology which becomes a fundamental axis for enriching learning. Results will lead to the improvement of professional practice in the field of public policy management as well as to open new horizons for multidisciplinary researching in the field of economics and other social sciences, contributing to the design and implementation of public policies.

The University cannot remain detached from the so-called "demographic challenge" and even more so in regional Universities where this is a burning problem. Despite curricula rigidities and the lack of flexibility that ANECA contemplates in modifying them, it is possible to propose a training scheme that allows this problem to be tackled from the academic world. To this end, using as a methodological basis the triple and quintuple helix models, and as a practical praxis the Intelligent Innovation Strategy (RIS3) for Castilla-La Mancha, the necessary public policies will be interwoven to face the demographic challenges within the educational structure of the Degree, Master and Doctorate of the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences of Ciudad Real. The innovative character of this work is reflected by the practical application from the University of Public Policies to the Demographic Challenges, making teaching compatible with research through a proven methodology from both theoretical (triple and quintuple helix models) and practical (RIS3) approaches.

In September 2015, 193 economies committed to the compliance of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 with the aim of promoting equality, improving the planet sustainability and achieving sustainable development. Given the crucial relevance of the issue, the main objective of the authors of this book is to provide the most recent approaches about economic policies that could contribute to achieve sustainable economic development. This particular book focuses on analysing the current situation and it offers the main theories and policies of economic development. In addition, it studies the scope of policies from both the demand and the supply side in order to obtain economic development. They highlight the effort made by the European Union (EU) to move towards sustainable development in terms of employment, poverty, firms, productive sectors, analyzing also the indirect effects in other regions. And finally, it provides several examples from Latin America and the Caribbean on instruments and tools that are relevant in the educational field, the labour market, productive sectors, among others, in order to explore the role of development policies concretely in developing countries. Given the clarity in the exposition, this particular book is not only of interest to economic policymakers and researchers, but also it becomes a very useful tool for educational purposes.