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APPLICATION OF THE GAME ON INTERNATIONAL MARKETS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL (SDG) OF "REDUCE INEQUALITY BETWEEN COUNTRIES" IN THE UNIVERSITY COURSE OF "ENTERPRISE"
Universitat Politècnica de València (SPAIN)
About this paper:
Appears in: INTED2021 Proceedings
Publication year: 2021
Pages: 1776-1781
ISBN: 978-84-09-27666-0
ISSN: 2340-1079
doi: 10.21125/inted.2021.0400
Conference name: 15th International Technology, Education and Development Conference
Dates: 8-9 March, 2021
Location: Online Conference
Abstract:
Within the "Enterprise" university subject, where the basic pillars of the reality of companies and the environment in which they carry out their business activity are learned, a game is proposed through which students can (as natural learning) evaluate how develop international trade relations between countries.

The first objective is to check how the different level of resources with which each country starts the game (depending on whether it is a "Developed", an "Underdeveloped", or a "Developing" country) influences the result of commercial exchanges. This result is measured by the final capital wealth of each country (after commercial exchanges and the corresponding production processes).

The second objective is, seeing how international trade is marked by these differences, and attending to the criterion of "Guarantee equal opportunities and reduce inequality of results, including eliminating discriminatory laws, policies and practices, and promoting legislation, policies and adequate measures in this regard ", which is established as one of the priorities of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), ask students to propose and debate political initiatives and good practices to reduce these inequalities and promote fair trade between countries.

After carrying out the exercise it is shown that, to achieve equity in productive and commercial relations between countries at an international level, it is necessary to introduce accelerators and tricks to overcome market inefficiencies. Among all the instruments that are proposed to overcome inequalities between countries, two of them stand out for their impact: development cooperation, and the provision of privileged information to the most disadvantaged countries, key instruments so that the less powerful countries can compete with certain guarantees.
Keywords:
Sustainable Development Goals, International Markets, Equal opportunities, Fair Trade.