POL 540 Lecture 1: Lecture 1

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POL 540
• Professor: Abbas Gnamo

Document Summary

Lecture 1 the creation of the three worlds of development. The meaning of development: development as a long term process of structural societal transformation, development as a short to medium term outcome of desirable targets, development as a dominate discourse of western modernity. The three worlds during the cold-war era: blue first world, red communism, green third world. Covid package, 70% are middle class in canada: large middle class, modern, and large cities and highly educated population (higher educated. High school diploma, university degree, 15 years of education is expected). More than half of the people of the world are living in conditions approaching misery. Their food is inadequate, they are victims of disease. Their poverty is a handicap and a threat both to them and more prosperous areas. Third world: have colonial history (countries had a colonialized past, they were colonizlized by the british), are developing economically and socially (ex.