IDSA01H3 Lecture Notes - Presupposition, Demography, Amartya Sen
24 Nov 2013
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Moyo: watching the development aid going into africa, she questions the whole aid industry in africa, argument: these financial aids have done more harm than good to most african countries. The country is more corrupted then they were before aid was given. The money is used to suppress the people and to benefit themselves. Lecture objectives: there are very powerful glasses in which we see the world and these glasses are languages, how these conventions gained legitimacy, look at alternatives (chapter 4) You need to help differentiate things for people. Labeling sometimes is not so innocent because it makes a certain assumption of why you shouldn"t do something: labeling legitimizes things. Calling something a disease makes the assumption that medication and treatment is needed: labels are not fixed, they change as our ideas about certain things changes. How does the world bank define development: low, middle, high income they classify the world as, to the wb development means economic growth.
