# data[].attributes.headline
1870s- colonialism linked to western development

# data[].attributes.subject
1870s- colonialism linked to western development

# data[].attributes.body
Rhodes quoted as saying: “We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labour that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories”

# data[].attributes.body
The 'slave triangle' running from Bristol/Liverpool down to Africa and out to America drew to a close. This had gone on since the late 1600s.

# data[].attributes.body
The Madras Railway was the first part of an ever increasing network within India by the British Raj to allow movement of goods and troops around India.

# data[].attributes.body
Britain bullied its way into the Asian markets through signing of a series of treaties protecting its own citizens and allowing them to operate under British low rather than local law while within the terroities of Thailand. It lifted many restrictions previous kings had had on the signing.

# data[].attributes.body
Moved the British into setting up an elite that was indigenous rather than anglacised in order to provide not only a means of control but also a means of hope to the local population that things were better under british rule.

# data[].attributes.body
formed a trade link between the Red Sea and the Medetarrian

# data[].attributes.body
Built a trade link connecting 3 major port cities— Bombay, Madras, Calcutta. Mostly built under the supervision of British engineers

# data[].attributes.headline
1899- French Association of industry openly states that they have been killing off local economies. 

# data[].attributes.subject
1899- French Association of industry openly states that they have been killing off local economies. 

# data[].attributes.body
In some cases this looked like tax for instance salt opium or alcohol in vietnam but was also physically destroying manafacturing such as Britain destoying Indian mills to ensure they were buying instead from the home counties.

# data[].attributes.body
Agreement with 44 Allied countries brought about the creation of the international monetary fund and the world bank

# data[].attributes.body
After the end of World War II, establishment of United Nations Conference on International Organization

# data[].attributes.body
prioritised economic growth and the application of modern scientiﬁc and technical knowledge as the route to prosperity for countries considered ‘underdeveloped’ at that time.

# data[].attributes.body
Development thinking really started to take off but with a major focus on economic growth. The best way this was thought to be done was through the application of modern scientific and technical knowledge as a good way to 'catch up' to the west. This was a stage that Development was seen as modernisation and modernisation was seen as westernisation.

# data[].attributes.body
Walter Rostow's 1960 book The Stages of Economic Growth

# data[].attributes.body
Rostow released his thesis "the stages of economic development - an anti-communist manifesto" describing development in very economic based terms as stages. These stages were very similar to the structure of how western countries developed through the industrial revolution with an end goal of high mass consumption within a consumerist system

# data[].attributes.headline
Development of 'dependency' school of thought  

# data[].attributes.subject
Development of 'dependency' school of thought  

# data[].attributes.body
During the late 1960s, development thinking was influenced by scholars within Latin America and the Caribbean.

The ideas are closely associated with the work of Andre Gunder Frank (1967), who carried out research in Central and Latin America.

# data[].attributes.body
Redistribution of wealth - poverty becomes focus of development

# data[].attributes.body
“Limits to Growth” published. Predicted dire consequences if growth was not slowed.

# data[].attributes.body
UN Conference of Human Environment/UNEP in Stockholm

# data[].attributes.body
UN Habitat Conference. Purpose to promote sustainability in human settlements.

# data[].attributes.body
Cuts in Government Spending and decline in Growth except for East Asia

# data[].attributes.body
Introduced the most widely recognised definition of sustainability:
"Development that meets the needs of the present

without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."

# data[].attributes.body
Declaration on International Economic Cooperation was adopted by the General Assembly

# data[].attributes.body
Politics started to play less of a role as the dissolution of the Soviet union occurred

# data[].attributes.body
UN committed to achieving the 8 MDGs in 2000

# data[].attributes.body
Held in Johannesburg, 2002 to support partnerships, helped develop a more "decentralised understanding of where change comes from”

# data[].attributes.body
- Deconstruction of the 'nation state', focus on connections at a global scale
- Increase in NGO's and grassroots approaches
- Recognition that countries aren't homogenous blocks - there can be big disparities within countries/regions

# data[].attributes.body
Not all the MDGs achieved, so the SDGs goals were created to help create a more sustainable future hopefully to be achieved by 2030.