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Defining development: Whether people can make choices about their own lives. Many components:

Economic wellbeing (can meet basic needs; stable income, ability to make economic decisions)

Education

Social equality (services, clean air)

Health and nutrition (absence of disease, presence of healthy choices / access)

Different ways of measuring it:

UNDP human development index (HDI)

Long and healthy life

Level of knowledge

A decent standard of living

Multidimensional poverty index (MPI)

Measures the intensity of poverty

Health

Education

Standard of living

+ 10 indicators

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Key concepts it's related to:

Uneven development

Role of Globalization / neoliberalism / free trade in development (or underdevelopment)

Post-colonial global order

Impact of imperialism on future outcomes / legacy of colonialism

Institutions like World Bank, IMF

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Cases it's linked to:

Haiti (podcast)

Discussion of poverty in SSA, South Asia

Development over time (graphs from Class 8 lectures)

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Link to readings / other class topics

"The Rest vs. The West" -- which countries are developed? (Hall reading)

The World is Flat reading (Friedman)

etc...

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Defining Post WW2 International Order:

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Defining discourse: prevalent opinions/ideas that people have that turn into the general narrative/pattern

Defining globalization: increasing integration and interdependence of economic, cultural, etc. processes

Defining 'G'lobalization: a certain discourse around globalization, often equated with neoliberalism and free market policies; promoted as inevitable and natural

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key concepts related to:

1. free trade

2. trade protectionism

3. multilateralism

4. role of globalization

5. neoliberalism

6. interdependence

7. hegemony

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TINA/Washington Consensus: the neoliberalist idea that globalization is natural process. This big 'G' discourse was rejected by many people

flattening of the world: the idea that 'G'lobalization reduces unevenness in prosperity, that economic ideas like competition drives globalization

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Nationalism

Imperialism

Capitalism

Neoliberalism

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Names: Ananya, Dilnar, Hannah, Jonah

Defining uneven development: The unequal distribution of wealth, wellbeing, resources, health, social equality, education, and growth in different areas.

Key concepts it's related to:

colonialism

neoliberalism(industrialized countries making underdeveloped countries develop)

US hegemony

capitalism

Global North/Global South

nonalignment

poverty

cases it's linked to:

The Daily - Haiti's 'double debt'

Lec 8 graph of the World HDI

Cobalt minning

Link to reading/other class topics:

Multidimensional property index

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link to readings/other concepts:

1. hopewell (china economy)

2. wade (hegemonic interest e.g. how is this trade actual gonna help)

3. hall rest vs west e.g. who is this going to help in the long run

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Belgian Congo --> effect of Belgian colonialism and its economy now

Reading from Washington Post - Frankel 2016

West is viewed as superior and enforcing the idea of power onto the "the rest"

From reading "West and the Rest" (Hall, 1992)

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Group: Umar, Chutian, Miriam

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First Age of Empire: The time period between 1450-1750 which European nations first made contact with and colonized the Americas, creating competitive European Empires on the continents.

Second Age of Empire: The time period between 1750 to 1875 which saw the emergence of informal empires, empires in which control over other peoples and lands is exerted economically and socially. This came after many American colonies gained independence and European nations needed non-political ways to create empires and gain power.

Decolonization: The period between 1945 to 1960 in which many countries, especially in Africa and Southeast Asia, gained independence.

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We'd likely reference the Sparke reading as this concept comes directly/is defined by Sparke.

Stiglitz also references how big 'G'lobalization is largely a made up conncept that is used to justify neoliberal policies

Friedman discusses the intricacies of globalization and seems to be relatively optimistic regarding the concepts ofbig 'G'lobalization.

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Definition: a series of negotiations that began in Doha in 2001, it covered divergences between developing and developed countries. Especially on issues of agricultural subsidies. negations were declared an impasse in 2011.

Case study: The China Paradox —> China is both a developing country and an economic powerhouse.

Application: Developing countries are trying to get a say in the international institutions. They are confronting the West’s ability to adjust/ find workarounds for systems in global economy.

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Kylie Barragan

Annabelle Chen

Ana Camila Burquez

Lauren Bausley