2022 Development Theory Timeline by Aaron Opdyke https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43 Timeline of key development ideas, theories, and events en-us 2022-08-08 22:53:20 UTC 2022-08-09 01:42:55 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f30d.png Colonial Era aaronopdyke https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257007771 2022-08-08 23:55:57 UTC https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257007771 1940s aaronopdyke https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257008042 2022-08-08 23:56:29 UTC https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257008042 1950s aaronopdyke https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257008066 2022-08-08 23:56:33 UTC https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257008066 1960s aaronopdyke https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257008097 2022-08-08 23:56:37 UTC https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257008097 1970s aaronopdyke https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257008235 2022-08-08 23:56:56 UTC https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257008235 1980s aaronopdyke https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257008269 2022-08-08 23:57:01 UTC https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257008269 1990s aaronopdyke https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257008304 2022-08-08 23:57:06 UTC https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257008304 2000s aaronopdyke https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257008341 2022-08-08 23:57:11 UTC https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257008341 2010s aaronopdyke https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257008370 2022-08-08 23:57:15 UTC https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257008370 1972 https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257059435 UN Conference of Human Environment/UNEP in Stockholm ]]> 2022-08-09 01:24:26 UTC https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257059435 suez canal completed https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257059460 formed a trade link between the Red Sea and the Medetarrian]]> 2022-08-09 01:24:29 UTC https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257059460 The Lost Decade https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257059586 Cuts in Government Spending and decline in Growth except for East Asia]]> 2022-08-09 01:24:42 UTC https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257059586 train networks in india https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257059877 Built a trade link connecting 3 major port cities— Bombay, Madras, Calcutta. Mostly built under the supervision of British engineers]]> 2022-08-09 01:25:16 UTC https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257059877 July 1944 Bretton Woods Agreement https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257060262 Agreement with 44 Allied countries brought about the creation of the international monetary fund and the world bank]]> 2022-08-09 01:26:03 UTC https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257060262 Formation of the United Nations https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257060443 After the end of World War II, establishment of United Nations Conference on International Organization]]> 2022-08-09 01:26:25 UTC https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257060443 The Brundtland Report - 1987 https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257060758 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."
]]> 2022-08-09 01:26:58 UTC https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257060758 1832 Madras Railway started https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257060811 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.]]> 2022-08-09 01:27:04 UTC https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257060811 Development of 'dependency' school of thought https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257060853 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.]]> 2022-08-09 01:27:09 UTC https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257060853 Globalisation https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257061265 - 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 ]]> 2022-08-09 01:27:46 UTC https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257061265 Era of Redistribution https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257061274 Redistribution of wealth - poverty becomes focus of development ]]> 2022-08-09 01:27:46 UTC https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257061274 1990 https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257061621 Declaration on International Economic Cooperation was adopted by the General Assembly]]> 2022-08-09 01:28:20 UTC https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257061621 1807 https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257062725 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.]]> 2022-08-09 01:30:13 UTC https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257062725 1976 https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257062750 UN Habitat Conference. Purpose to promote sustainability in human settlements. ]]> 2022-08-09 01:30:16 UTC https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257062750 Optimistic developing thinking https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257064426 prioritised economic growth and the application of modern scientific and technical knowledge as the route to prosperity for countries considered ‘underdeveloped’ at that time.]]> 2022-08-09 01:33:05 UTC https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257064426 1870s- colonialism linked to western development https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257064472 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”]]> 2022-08-09 01:33:10 UTC https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257064472 1972 https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257065172 “Limits to Growth” published. Predicted dire consequences if growth was not slowed.

]]> 2022-08-09 01:34:25 UTC https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257065172 Modernisation theory development https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257065820 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.]]> 2022-08-09 01:35:29 UTC https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257065820 1855- Bowring Treaty signed https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257065924 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. ]]> 2022-08-09 01:35:43 UTC https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257065924 https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257067243 Walter Rostow's 1960 book The Stages of Economic Growth

]]> 2022-08-09 01:38:13 UTC https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257067243 1857- Indian Mutiny https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257067461 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. ]]> 2022-08-09 01:38:36 UTC https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257067461 World Summit on Sustainable Development https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257067868 Held in Johannesburg, 2002 to support partnerships, helped develop a more "decentralised understanding of where change comes from” ]]> 2022-08-09 01:39:15 UTC https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257067868 Millennium Development Goals https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257068224 UN committed to achieving the 8 MDGs in 2000]]> 2022-08-09 01:39:52 UTC https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257068224 MDGs not achieved by 2015 https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257068716 Not all the MDGs achieved, so the SDGs goals were created to help create a more sustainable future hopefully to be achieved by 2030.]]> 2022-08-09 01:40:40 UTC https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257068716 Modernisation theory - Rostow https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257068739 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]]> 2022-08-09 01:40:42 UTC https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257068739 1991 https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257068826 Politics started to play less of a role as the dissolution of the Soviet union occurred]]> 2022-08-09 01:40:48 UTC https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257068826 1899- French Association of industry openly states that they have been killing off local economies. https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257069204 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. ]]> 2022-08-09 01:41:29 UTC https://padlet.com/aaronopdyke/lhy1e46vjrdhiv43/wish/2257069204