GGR112H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Millennium Development Goals, Ert3, International Development
29 May 2015
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International development: targeted attempts by organizations to perpetuate economic growth, development is an intervention (to create change) A relationship between two places (one place designs improvement and second place implements that change: a reorganization of global south societies, development: a symptom of something, international development is interventions designed in the west. The millennium development goals (to be achieved by 2015) a global project, not achieved and now modified: an ongoing process of trying to measure development through goals, also seen through reliance on gini coeffient. Old way of measuring glob inequality was to look at gnp (does not capture unevenness within a country) Gini tells us where most unequal and least unequal societies are: other method to measure: population rates, literacy rates, labour market participation (all measures imply a state of development or underdevelopment) It is useful to capitalism as un economic system.
