INTD 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Official Development Assistance, Millennium Development Goals, Gross National Income

• School: McGill University
• Department: International Development
• Course: INTD 200
• Professor: Kazue Takamura

Document Summary

Modernity, industrialization, and liberal progress: central critiques towards the conventional development approach= one-dimensional 9income- based), top-down, and euro-centric type of development. Emergence of human development (since the 1990s) = active adoption of multidimensional, inclusive, bottom-up norms: key ideas = participation, empowerment, sustainability, human wellbeing, partnerships. "we must embark on a bold new program for making the benefits of our scientific advances and industrial progress available for the improvement and growth of underdeveloped areas" (harry truman, = "developed countries" responsibility to assist "developing" countries in order to achieve industrialization. Lower middle income ( - : upper middle income (- , high income: nonoecd (,275 or more, high income: oecd (,275 or more) Affinity between gross national income (gni) and other indicators. Does income alone really explain development: no, gni per capita doesn"t necessarily indicate inequality, e. g. , nigeria"s gni per capita > vietnam, but vietnam"s child mortality rate > nigeria.