POLS 2080 Study Guide - Final Guide: Unfreedom, Laissez-Faire, Walt Whitman Rostow
18 Apr 2014
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Week 1: meaning measurement and morality in international development. First time it came up in truman"s speech in 1949. Labels matter newly industrialized third world global south: gnp, gdp, gni, ppp. How to define poverty: multidimensional, peoples capabilities, unfreedom. Development economics (1: keyesanian economics, heavy hand of the state. 1980s: state is taking a back seat, state should get out of things like providing education. Laissez faire: washington consensus, welfare entrenchment, trade liberalization, structural adjustment (5) developmental state, state taking an active role in development. Slide, shaping today"s world, expand that empire, dominate that world and imperialist. Countries had oil or didn"t (2)hipcm heavily indebted poor countries (3)odious debts- globalization, 1980s debt crisis that"s was an issue in perkins. It"s the back drop of perkins book even though he did not say it. 5 arms ida, ifc, ibrd, miga and the international centre for the settlement of investment disputes. Look @ slide show for the approaches ****
