SOCI 254 Lecture Notes - Mother Teresa, Millennium Development Goals, Civilizing Mission
28 Oct 2012
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Chile has working institutions/functional state (emergency response) Having a functional state = stability, emergency prep and prevention. Haiti has no effective building codes, poor for natural disaster resistance. Hotel montana (symbol of wealth, built by the rich for the rich) port- au-prince collapsed in the earthquake no clear planning, wasn"t built properly. Haiti extracts resources and does not give back services to the people (predatory state) Aftermath was not a result of chile being richer and haiti being poorer, it was from the state not being prepared/caring for the total wellbeing of the country/land and its people. Development as vision, process, and program: as a program conventional aid. Technology transfer (north to south) leading to more development (i. e. more agriculture) Motives behind aid? (i. e. political/religious: as a program political development and aid (visionaries) Bring a message from the outside to restructure (i. e. castro and socialism, che and communism) Great empires spreading ideologies: as a program military aid.
