DEVS 100- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 41 pages long!)

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Global Development Studies
• Course: DEVS 100
• Professor: David A Mc Donald

Document Summary

De vel op ment: noun- the act or process of developing; growth; progress. At one level development is about objective" and material" questions of poverty income, housing, health, education, etc. Second leading cause of death in children under five years old. 1. 7 billion cases of diarrheal disease every year. Can appear non-political but often mask practices of power. Can create illusion of progressive change but leave underlying power relations intact. Underdeveloped implies not as good as but sometimes used to argue that former colonies are intentionally kept in a relationship of dependency to provide cheap labour, raw resources, etc. Arena of conflict between first and second world. In 1952, sauvy used the term tiers monde (third world) to refer to countries outside the east-west blocs. Many see it is hierarchicalfirst is better than third! Often put in quotes which indicates it is problematiclike the name of this course! Different meanings least developed countries" aboriginal peoples peoples with no state.