DEVS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Effective Demand, International Development, Devs
3 Dec 2015
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Historical overview of global development: creation of mdg"s by the united nations. Its aim is to increase the production of commodities by way of exchange to effective demand. gilbert rist. The development project: colonization decolonization. Most non-europeans were not free to make their own decisions, as their countries were being colonized. Post decolonization marked the end of the european colonial rule (via force/negotiation). New countries were formed and they searched for independent economic and political models: third world . In 1952, alfred sauvy suggested that there was a tripartite division of the planet. The first world = pro-capitalist (us, canada, western. The second world = the soviet union; those countries that fell into the soviet communist sphere of influence (poland, east germany, etc. ) The third world = tiers monde the countries in. Africa, asia, the middle east, latin america and the. Caribbean that had been former colonies of europe or had been subject to european imperial rule: the cold war.
