INTD 200 Lecture Notes - Karl Polanyi, Food Security, Mixed Economy
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Development is: improvement of living standards, economic prosperity, sustainability, globalization. Many people think of development as a technological progress an improvement in technology. Also as something that is a linear change. Influenced from ideas from darwin - a process by which organisms reach their evolutionary peek. Some people think of development as planned change. Development/underdevelopment: this concept was claimed right after the first world war by. Harry truman in a speech where he proposed the concept of underdeveloped areas: prior to this, there was an even more derogatory idea that certain areas in the world were backwards economically, or socially, truman"s speech: We must embark on a bold new program for making the benefits of our scientific advances and industrial progress available for the improvement of growth and underdeveloped areas. More than half the people of the world are living in conditions approaching misery. Their food is inadequate, they are victims of disease.