GEOG 2200 Lecture : Week 11 Lecture 1. GEOG 2200 2012 Notes.docx
5 Jun 2014
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According to the oxford dictionary, development consists of a gradual unfolding; evolution; a well-grown stage, stage of advancement; a more elaborate form. taken in the context of economic policy, it conveys the sense of positive change over time. And this positive change is generally understood as improvements the well-being of people. Therefore, development consists of growth or progress towards greater prosperity. This development imperative has become a focal point of international efforts to global poverty. However, exactly how this goal is to be achieved has changed dramatically since the second world war as has the context in which international development is conceived. At least not as we understand it today. It was perhaps lurking behind ideas of civilizing others an idea shared by the chinese and their conceptualizing of everyone beyond their empire as barbarians, and by european imperial and theological narratives. The current understanding of the international dimension of development emerged following the.
