INTD 200 Chapter Notes -Millennium Development Goals, Gender Empowerment Measure, Human Poverty Index
8 Dec 2013
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Early 21st century human wellbeing accepted as outcomes and conditions for sustained progress. Recognizing most ppl lack even the most fundamental goods resulted in insertion of critical sensibility: expansion in tools and measures for monitoring deprivation and progress worldwide. Theoretical developments: through 1990s big ideas (characterized by modernist tradition) overturned by poster modernists, rights-based development gained strength. Civil and political rights (cp) and legal rights centered: debate led by west, emphasized material well being, placed alongside international development agendas. 2 key intl covenants adapted yet they were considered to be separate from cp rights: covenants on cp rights and economic, social and cultural (esc) rights. The basic needs approach criticism: no account of distribution of national income, economic growth usually brought increases in absolute and relative poverty. 1980s- development reversals due to: new methods of financing necessary, developing nations" governments had to cut expenses.
