DEVS 100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Qatar, World Food Programme, Ecotourism

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Global Development Studies
• Course: DEVS 100
• Professor: C A N' T R E M E M B E R

Document Summary

Canadian economic involvement in the developing world pros: high rates of return on dividends, mutual funds, benefits in the developing countries, eg, employment, technology transfers, tax revenue, diplomatic foot in the door (can be used to pressure for human rights reforms?) The resource curse: about 2/3 of the people living below the poverty line reside in nations rich with extractive resources yet they rarely receive any meaningful benefits from their country"s resource wealth, mining dependent developing countries are kept poor because of, loss of competitivenessloss of development of other economic sectors, unequal distribution of benefits (employment, profits) national mining codes re written to reduce taxes. Evans could offer those who had been harmed by the actions of a canadian mining company, dispute mediation, was contingent on voluntary participation of the company in question. As predicted, companies made use of the voluntary nature of the office to walk away from offers of mediation with no consequences.