POLI 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Planned Economy, Neocolonialism, Market Economy

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 227
• Professor: Philip Oxhorn

Document Summary

Ensuring follow-through: how, by whom these priorities are set and determined, making sure goals that are set are followed through, following through on how short and long term goals are created. Avoiding dependency by achieving development in the most basic sense: access to services, including healthcare, education and old age, creating an economy that can generate recourses (taxes) and retirement employment. Generate resources = taxes (state fund), public policies and jobs. Defining development: improving people"s quality of lie in ways they appreciate. Brundtland commision (1987): development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to met their own needs. Problem: insufficient for majority of world"s population: standard interpretation, current economic activity can continue, environment primary concern, not lifestyles but basics: housing, water, sanitation, electricity, the need to create jobs (access to internet and cellphones!) Esp for youth: not one size fits all.