INTD 200 Lecture Notes - Human Rights Day, Gross National Income, Newly Industrialized Country

• School: McGill University
• Department: International Development
• Course: INTD 200
• Professor: Karen Mc Allister

Document Summary

Women and children, social work, child trafficking in africa specifically nigeria. Tyler- background human rights, refugee work in us. Also at back are summary"s of every chapter. First, second, third, and fourth world: first: all nations included in north atlantic treaty organizations. Truman s speech- ethical responsibility to help lower worlds technologically. Gni ( gross national income) per capita- term used by world bank, essentially gdp. Measuring inequality: dividing population into economic strata. Basic human needs approach income/consumption- poverty line. Denis goulet (1971: 3 core values of development (basic needs, self esteem (diginity, self respenct, independence) , freedom- *choice) Amartya sen (1999) expanded on seers and goulet: development as freedom , capability approach. Human development index (hdi) constructed under undp 1990 s. range bw 0 and 1. % of population not expected to survive beyond 40. Deprivation index - % population with no access to health care, water, and % of malnourished children. Gross nation happiness index (gnh) (bhutan 1971).