POLSCI 2J03 Lecture Notes - Dependency Theory, Comparative Advantage, Group Of 77
10 Mar 2014
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Social indicators would look at what are the conditions under which people live. Africa, asia, latin america but not europe: as a concept has been applied to certain parts of the world and not to other parts of the world. Measures by economic terms (gnp, or gdp) per capita! How much wealth is generated divided by the amount of people in the country. Human development index (adds literacy and life expectancy levels) The hdi is likely to favor socialist, ex-socialist and social democratic states: societies where there is an attempt to try to redistribute wealth, choice differs. Different definitions of development will lead to different conclusions of development . Why is hdi important: things such as the ranking systems are used to justify different kinds of policies and trajectories. All of these connotations tell us about the kind of subjective lens from which we examine the development debate.
