PAP 3365 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Bretton Woods Conference, Colombo Plan, Structural Adjustment

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Public Administration
• Course: PAP 3365
• Professor: Mahmoud Maesali

Document Summary

The beginning: bretton woods conference 1944, the cold war and the ideological rivalries, the uk led colombo plan -1950, colo(cid:373)(cid:271)o pla(cid:374)"s goals: investment for infrastructures for the energy. Investment in transportation and clean water: hydro-electric dams, irritation system, and railway lines. Later developments- 1960s: a long way struggle for independence in africa, dissolution if colonialism, newly independent countries and organizational ties in the un, the un development decade -1960, anglophone-francophone gap, ca(cid:374)ada"s (cid:373)o(cid:448)e to(cid:449)ard afri(cid:272)a. New independent countries, new demands for help. Canada and official development assistance: offered by formal agencies, governments, dedicated to economic growth, (towards only economic growth, not human development) Established in 1948 to run the us- financed marshall plan for reconstruction of a continent ravaged by war. Paved the way for a new era of cooperation to change the face of europe. Haiti recive money, authorized only to buy things from us offering loans.