DVM 2105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Washington Consensus, Chartered Company, Indirect Rule
20 Aug 2016
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Old style development: economic growth per capita. Capabilities approach: improving individual people"s capabilities and enlarging their choice. West: nationalist europeans who thought of themselves as civilized, advanced, superior, etc. Rest: everything opposite to this; uncivilized, savages, stupid. Absence of self-betterment and sense of individualism. Unequal development has been caused by colonialism and imperialism. From circa 1000 ce to 1500, major regions of the world had roughly similar incomes per capita. Ratio of highest to lowest was 2:1. In 1500 the most technologically advanced country in the world was china. Starting around 1500, the west started expanding and developing faster than the rest". Beginning of modernity in europe (and across european thought) starts a dark time for the rest of the world. The rest was created in such a way to implement in the minds of people that they were the. This instilled a hierarchy that greatly favoured europe. The west grew faster than the rest due to (theories):
