INTD 200 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Infant Mortality, Chronic Poverty, Age Of Enlightenment

• School: McGill University
• Department: International Development
• Course: INTD 200
• Professor: kazu

Document Summary

International developement midterm study guide: developed and underdeveloped : *development is the sustainable changes in society that lead to human progress, rationalism, and modernity. * underdevelopment means that this country"s economy is primarily agricultural, there is inadequate food, there"s a lack of health protection and facilities (high maternal and infant mortality rates), a lack of public infrastructure and chronic poverty. The political context is that western capitalism was considered as first. Colonial impact on indigenous population, foreign pathogens wiped out up to 90% of the native american. Population: colonial legacies: colonial legacies refers to the political, economic and social impact of colonialism on contemporary developing countries. It is negatively viewed as exploitative but the positive impact of colonialism is in terms of state building and industrialization. There is a shadow of previous institutions shape variation in colonial legacies which means the development in post-colonial states.