GGR107H1 Chapter 7: GGR107 Finals Notes_Chapter 7.docx
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Geography and the third world: labelling nations according to degree of development imposes negative uniformity, all too often the developing world has been defined as a problem for the western world that can only be resolved with the intervention of western experts, donor, technology or ideology, the three worlds schema is very much a cold war conceptualization of space is strongly associated with the global, social and political conflict between capitalism and communism, between the usa and ussr, in the second half of the twentieth century. It was observed that world bank has claimed to have shifted policy focus towards sustainable development and poverty alleviation in recent years, but neoliberal policy prescriptions continue their dominance within the international development industry whilst the bank has been able to maintain many aspects of its core policy focus by coopting critics and cloaking itself in the guise of green environmentalism: facilitatng people"s participation is now on the agenda of most international development institutions.
