The Bottom Billion – Paul Collier – A Summary
Global poverty has been falling for decades, but a few countries which are caught in four distinct traps (such as […]
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Sustainable Development
This post defines sustainable development, summarises the environmental challenges we face and contrasts technocentric and ecocentric views on the relationship
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Criticisms of Neoliberalism
The three country case studies below all suggest that although neoliberal policies might promote economic development in the long run,
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People Centred Development
This post provides a brief summary of people centred development approaches to social development, including the work of Vandana Shiva.
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The Neoliberal Theory of Economic Development
Neoliberalism believe privatisation, deregulation, and low taxes to promote economic development
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World Systems Theory
Core countries exploit those on the periphery in a global economic system.
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Evaluate explanations of development and under-development put forward by dependency theorists
The plan below is just one suggestion as to how you might go about answering this essay. Briefly introduce Dependency
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Dependency Theory
Dependency Theorists argue that rich countries accumulated their wealth through exploiting poorer countries. Initially this was through colonialism and slavery, later on through neo-colonialism. To develop, poorer countries need to break free from these exploitative relations.
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Modernisation Theory (Development and Underdevelopment)
These are brief, exam based revision notes, for a more in-depth look at this theory please see my fuller class
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The Transformationalist View of Globalisation
Transformationalists argue that globalisation is complex two way process and that it can be reversed.