DEV STD C10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Washington Consensus, English Poor Laws, Fiscal Policy
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Population resource poverty nexus: malthus and population checks. Poor laws: dysfunctions: don"t support the poor they will keep reproducing. The right to food or subsistence: malthus says no. Discourse: rarratives of competitive progress, indiviual freedom etc. Discourses of populism: the people, small, community development, informal economies, reaction to large scale corporate ideas. Development as a contested concepts - multiple and contested discourses. All encompassing, pocos with is continuous and builds upon itself. Development entails a set of linked freedoms ro conditions conducive to maxim choice. The absence of ay of these constitutes and un freedom. The origins of the third world : came from the third estate in france. A moments of liberation and new ideas? problems of newly independent states. Independence non alignment the cold war, they had to navigate it: disaster for post colonial states. Working definition of global south: nations, world order, periphery, expansion of capital.