POLB90H3 Lecture Notes - World Trade Organization, Neoliberalism, Microfinance
27 Feb 2014
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Export processing zone (concluded) and review (session 7 11: international labour organization has been pushing for a long time, and nothing has happened, many activist believe would solve the labour issues in epzs. Some claim to do it don"t enforce if they don"t incline to do so. Mobilization: political pressure, labour organizing with international support, consumer boycott. Must be wide spread in order for it to be effective. Need a fundamental change in development thinking: human development and improvement of social condition were not seen as economic reform/policy, state needs to have minimal role, propel growth and redistribution has been taken away from gs countries. Essential element of understanding modern politics in economic and social aspects in gs countries. Europe expanded, conquered and colonized most countries of the gs. Encountered complex societies: not primitive undifferential societies. The impact was profound: americas, reordering the political economic social order.
