DEV STD C10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Mahatma Gandhi, Licence Raj, Infant Mortality
7 Apr 2017
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Brazil russia india china: countries that are middle income and are experience economic growth. China: blend of socialism and capitalism, and manufacturing industries. India: life expectancy and education especially for women are low, infant mortality. China is investing in nigeria for resources, ex. China"s special economic zones, investment from us and uk to develop manufacturing industry. Government is very rich in resources and wealth but is not distributed, consolidation of wealth paves way for conflict and violence. Nigeria: politics and concentration of wealth, provisioning pact/rent seeking (certain ethnic groups get shares of resources, consolidation of wealth. Describe the colonial legacy and how it shapes the contemporary political or economic state of the country. India: settler colonialism/indirect rule: tea and spices, negotiated independence ghandi. Nehru: boosting economic growth and wanting to join the global circulation of goods. Ghandi: wanted to build from the bottom up and focused on small communities. Nehruvian socialism wins: state led centralized government industrialization.
