INTD 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Gross National Income, Eurocentrism, Malaria

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

Document Summary

Mainstream ideas that constitute development: modernity, highly interconnected to the western experience. The problem is that this is an evolutional (eurocentric) world view of progress . Emergence of development in the 1940s we must embark on a bodl new program for making the benefits of our scientific advances and industrial progress available for the improvement and growth of underdeveloped areas. (harry truman, 1949) Meaning that: developed countries" responsibility to assist developing countries in order to achieve industrialization. Visualization who is developing based on national income. Affinity between gross national income (gni) and other indicators. Nigeria is rich enough to be a middle-income country, but more than 1/10 children there die before age of 5. Major shift in development discourse in the early 1990s. Development based on catching up with the west development based on human wellbeing ( development as freedom ) We should look at poverty more multidimensional. Human development in the early 1990s: promotion of multidimensional approach toward development.