GS211 Lecture Notes - Millennium Development Goals, Brinell Scale, Washington Consensus
Document Summary
Why should we be concerned about poverty. The international aid regime and poverty reduction: brief history: economic growth and trickle down, basic human needs, washington consensus, human development- but aid retreas, millennium development goals. Macro-economic theories that shaped mainstream development: modernization theory and. Sustainable development: rist says it is co-opted by imperative of economic growth (oxymoron). Other more positive views of sustainability do exist. Today: focus on question of poverty & ways oda can enhance poverty reduction. Dominant ideology: economic growth will eventually eliminate poverty. Today"s topic: what are major ways oda approached the topic of poverty reduction: sen"s approach is most important ones. Poverty is often seen as the antithesis of development but they are not exact opposites: poverty is a condition while development is a process. Millennium development goals (mdg): 2015 as a target date for the eradication of extreme poverty. 200 years ago most people were poor.
