POL337Y1 Lecture Notes - Canadian International Development Agency, Food Security, Core Countries
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Lowercase d development: people can live healthier and longer improved human well-being. Capital d development: political project of expanding capitalist sphere of influence. The flip side is not true in a sense that there is no requirement in funding for lower case development: we lost war in afghan because of another war in afghan. You try something but cannot achieve it because you don"t focus on it. Commercial self-interest: effectiveness becomes substitute for good policy which is really the government"s preferred policy, but with an aura of supposed objectivity and benevolence . President: 40 years of failure said senate of canada in 2007. Trends and patterns: how much aid we have given, by volume. 2008 0. 32: aid by rank. 16/22 most generous donor states: emphasis on immediate results and signature projects and limited budget ended up in reputation as money grubbing flag planter according to brown.
