Tag: Social Development
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The Sustainable Development Goals 2015 – 2030
In 2015, following the end of the 2000 -2015 Millennium Development Goals, all member states of the United Nations signed up to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Sustainable Development Goals are part of this agenda, and they are much broader in scope than the original Millennium Development Goals and are more ambitious. There…
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Explaining the Rapid Social Development in Ghana
Ghana, in West Africa, has seen positive economic growth for several decades now, on a par with many of its peers (similar countries by virtue of their development stats): However, it has been more successful that other countries in translating that economic growth into social development, as measured by the decline in stunting and the…
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People Centered Development
This post provides a brief summary of people centred development approaches to social development, including the work of Vandana Shiva. Why are developing countries underdeveloped? People Centered Development Theorists generally agree with Dependency Theory about why some countries are underdeveloped – because of a history of exploitation and extraction by western Nation States and TNCs.…
