IDSB02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sustainable Development Goals, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Kuznets Curve
2 Feb 2017
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Conceptualization of the relationship between the environment and development using the environmental kuznets curves. Progress traps and a short history of progress . Economic theory: is classical and neoclassical environments. The goal of development was growth and the age of development was the state. The means of development were macroeconomic policy instruments. Policies were instituted by new institutions (imf, world bank, gatt). They governed trade and finance to enable the national economic management required for development. Neoliberal policies - structural adjustment using deregulation, privatization etc. Emphasis on promoting exports, including especially agricultural and resource exports. Draws on different origins (feminism, ecology etc. ) Development should not be simply rising income levels but rather an increase in individual substantive methods. Post-development thought arose in the 1980s and 1990s. Similar to human development theory as it focuses on improving living standards and alternate approaches to development.
