POLI 283 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Dependency Theory, Informal Sector, Bretton Woods Conference

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 283
• Professor: Chris Roberts

Document Summary

Is the world coming together (sdg"s) or is it falling apart (brexit, yemen& syria, nafta: korea!! Four domains of gpe: trade: economic growth for all countries since 1800, some countries have grown signi cantly more (ie. Investment: monetary management/ exchange rates, development- a new domain of ir/gpe emerge after second world war. : what were the three international organizations rragreements that emerged out of the bretton woods conference in 1944: inf, wto, ibrd (world bank) world development (1956) more private investment into developing countries. Prof said: structural development policies, the country has to implicate changes upon borrowing money to ensure the country will be able to pay back their debts eventually. These conditions are all about macro economic policies. Human rights, democracy and fair elections are not a requirement to get loans from the world bank. What do modernization theories suggest is the route to development/progress (western& eastern bloc variants: shift from traditional to modern society, from rural to urban.