Unit 3 The Development Gap

‘Development is growth plus change - social and cultural as well as economic; and qualitative as well as quantitative’

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development - Guardian's Development Page

1.1. Measuring Development:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oMBvv8uUBPw1cH9y25I9Ph8utyIEvC2sNt2YO62QX-E/edit?hl=en&authkey=CIac78QI

1.2. Theories of Development (critiques of "developmentalism")

Rostow - Stages of Economic Growth
http://www.scribd.com/doc/7259174/Rostow-The-Stages-of-Economic-Growth
Dependency Theory
1. http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-dependency-theory.htm
2. http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/depend.htm
3. Dependency Theory introduction
World Systems Theory
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B8FB5IiG1dy8MjczZmViZDMtNWY1OC00NWYzLTg1ZDEtNTgyMTE3YTQxODNk&hl=en&authkey=COqDsTU
The Role of Debt
http://www.globalissues.org/article/29/causes-of-the-debt-crisis - this is an excellent article, from this excellent site: http://www.globalissues.org/issue/28/third-world-debt-undermines-development

1.3. Agents of Development:


http://www.guardian.co.uk/journalismcompetition - Development articles on a variety of themes.

1.4. Trade and Development

The article on trade and development - with a comment on aid towards the end.
http://www.ausaid.gov.au/publications/pdf/globalisation2.pdf

UN release on the importance of trade:
http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/reports/tf_trade.htm
2.1 Consequences of the Gap - Social


  • It's not all good in Botswana... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11685932




  • http://www.iss.co.za/uploads/BOTSWANASEP03.PDF




    • 2.2 Megacities
    http://www.megacities.uni-koeln.de/index.htm
    http://www.megacitiesproject.org//

    2.3 Tensions resulting from the Gap

    Recent overthrowing of governments in the Middle East is a clear product of differences in development;
    http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1473531/Q&A--What-s-behind-the-unrest-


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