POLS 2080 Lecture Notes - No Worries, Job Security, Free Trade

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2080
• Professor: Adam Sneyd

Document Summary

Job security: cooperation, basic needs, governance, power, management, law development, conflict, development industries, cultural and social change, liberation, progress, socio-economic stability/development of status quo, historical, freedom, life expectancy. Independence: right to be happy, equality/equity, no worries, long term, culture, free trade, profit, utilitarian. Innovation: revolution, foreign aid, community, unity, right to protest/dissent, leveling. Individual development: distribution of power, human rights, opportunity, standard of living, no corruption, empowerment. List of can"t: poverty, debt, corruption, profit. The way the word development is being used has political connotations, used to advance specific ideas, agendas and institutions. Looking at how development perpetuates change or remain the same. ***development is a process of qualitative political, social or economic change*** 5 main objectives of the chapter: labeling, origins, use to describe developing world, multidimensional, relationships between wealth and poverty, differentiate between gdp growth and human development index (hdi, ethical dilemmas, cosmopolitan global stance. What is the interest in africa: projects within each country, development projects, bonds.