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Looking more closely at Development?

Looking more closely at Development?. What is ‘development’???. Many perspectives… difficult to define Progression…? Becoming more advanced or complex…? Improving by expanding…? Resulting in more and better…? How our societies develop, how our nations develop…

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Looking more closely at Development?

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  1. Looking more closely at Development?

  2. What is ‘development’??? • Many perspectives… difficult to define • Progression…? • Becoming more advanced or complex…? • Improving by expanding…? • Resulting in more and better…? • How our societies develop, how our nations develop… • What makes a country ‘developed’?

  3. What is ‘development’ to you? Services Education Enterprise &Trade Energy Justice Food Security Infrastructure Medicine Peace Democracy Freedom Technology Choice

  4. The Development Compass Rose:A framework for raising questions http://www.tidec.org/sites/default/files/uploads/2c.50%20Compass%20rose.pdf

  5. What is ‘development’??? Natural (Env) – green energy, freshwater ecosystems damages Economic – Energy to homes & businesses, increased shipping capacity… Who decides? gov, people, international policy?… Social – forced relocation, destruction of ancestral homes, flooding behind dam.

  6. What is ‘development’??? Natural (Env) – energy efficient, convenience, materials used…? Who decides? consumer, builder, banks, planning authorities…? Economic – jobs, taxes…? Social – identity,urbanisation, Service provision, personal debt…?

  7. Perspectives on Developmentdevelopment V preservation • Consider social, economic, environmental, political… • But also culture/tradition… • What values do we uphold? What compromises do we make?

  8. Perspectives on Developmentdevelopment and underdevelopment • "we must embark on a bold new program for making the benefits of ourscientific advancesand industrial progress available for the improvement and growth of underdeveloped areas. …More than half the people of the world are living in conditions approachingmisery. Their food is inadequate. They are victims of disease. Their economic life isprimitive and stagnant.Their poverty is ahandicapand a threat both to them and to more prosperous areas. For the first time in history, humanity possesses theknowledge and skillto relieve suffering of these people.” President Harry Truman, 1949 Harry S. Truman, Inaugural Address, 20 January 1949, in Documents on American Foreign Relations, Connecticut: Princeton University Press, 1967

  9. Perspectives on Developmentthe creation of ‘underdevelopment’ “on that day 2 billion people became underdeveloped… from that time on, they ceased being what they were, in all their diversity, and were transmogrified into an inverted mirror of others’ reality: … a mirror that belittles them and send them off to the end of the queue, … a mirror that defines their identity, which is really that of a heterogenous and diverse majority, simply in the terms of a homogenizing narrow minority”. Gustavo Esteva (in Sachs, W. 2010, p.2) W. Sachs, 2010, (ed.) The Development Dictionary: a Guide to Knowledge as Power, 2nd Edition, London: Zed Books.

  10. Perspectives on DevelopmentModernisation theory • Economic view • Modernisation ideas:

  11. Perspectives on DevelopmentDependency 5:50:500 Give and take, mostly take… http://www.developmenteducation.ie/5-50-500/

  12. Perspectives on Developmentgrassroots development • e.g. Grameen Bank (GB) • removed the need for collateral, • bank is based on mutual trust, accountability, participation and creativity. • provides credit to the poorest of the poor in rural Bangladesh. • October, 2011: • 2,565 branches covering 97 % of total villages • 8.349 million borrowers, • 97 % are women Weaving is one of the industries supported by the bank. Image from http://www.grameen.com

  13. Perspectives on DevelopmentThe origins and impact of Debt • Debt: IMF & World Bank - issuing of loans to ‘developing countries’, • Loans to developing countries from OPEC countries and private banks in 1960s • Drop in prices of commodities (e.g. coffee, cotton, copper), increased in tariffs, increases in interest rates – difficult to service loans • 1982 Mexico unable to pay • Debt crisis, Structural Adjustment Programmes Available to download at: http://www.ubuntu.ie/teaching-resources.html

  14. Perspectives on DevelopmentSustainable Development • Sustainable Development: is that which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. (Brundtland Report, 1987) • It identified 3 components to sustainable development: economic growth, environmental protection, and social equity, and suggested that all three could be achieved by gradually changing the ways in which we develop and use technologies (Environmental Literacy Council, 2006). Bruntland, G (ed) (1987) Our Common Future: The World Commission on Environment and Development, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Environmental Literacy Council, 2006, Available at http://www.enviroliteracy.org/, accessed 22-01-07.

  15. Perspectives on DevelopmentHow it is measured • Economic Only:World Bank measures GNI or GDP (%) • UNDP:Human Development Index (HDI) measures Education, Health, Population, Economy (0-1) • Gini Factor:Measures inequality in a country (0-100) • The Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI),10 factors including nutrition and sanitation • The Happy Planet – an index of human well-being and environmental impact

  16. Perspectives on DevelopmentHow it is measured - HDI

  17. Perspectives on DevelopmentHow it is measured - HDI

  18. Perspectives on DevelopmentHow it is measured – Gini Index (measures equality) Norway – 25 Australia – 30.5 Netherlands – 30.9 United States - 45 New Zealand – 36.2 Canada – 32.1 Ireland - 33.9 Lichtenstein - x Germany - 27 Sweden - 23 0 = perfectly equal 100 = perfectly unequal

  19. Perspectives on Development Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) • Years of Schooling: deprived if no household member has completed 5 yrs of schooling • Child School Attendance: deprived if any school-aged child is not attending school up to class 8 • Child Mortality: deprived if any child has died in the family • Nutrition: deprived if any adult or child for whom there is nutritional information is malnourished • Electricity: deprived if the household has no electricity • Sanitation: deprived if the household’s sanitation facility is not improved (according to MDG guidelines), or it is improved but shared with other households • Drinking Water: deprived if the household does not have access to safe drinking water (according to MDG guidelines) or safe drinking water is more than a 30-minute walk from home roundtrip • Floor: deprived if the household has a dirt, sand or dung floor • Cooking Fuel: deprived if the household cooks with dung, wood or charcoal • Assets: ownership: deprived if the household does not own more than one radio, TV, telephone, bike, motorbike or refrigerator and does not own a car or truck • nutrition and sanitation

  20. Perspectives on Development Happy Planet Index 78: Ireland – 42.6

  21. Perspectives on Development …one definition Development is “growing social inclusion through rising living standards, meaningful employment, active political and social participation and a satisfying cultural life, extending to all sectors of society and thus widening life choices and possibilities for the great majority. (Kirby, P. 1997) Kirby, P. (1997) Poverty Amid Plenty: World and Irish Development Considered Dublin: Trócaire

  22. Development is unequal 32:1 http://www.developmenteducation.ie/blog/2012/05/consumption-in-a-world-of-321-%E2%80%93-our-new-animation/

  23. Combating inequalities of development:Millennium Development Goals http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals http://www.endpoverty2015.org

  24. Combating inequalities of development:Irish Aid – Overseas Development Aid (ODA)… 2011 was €659 million - 0.52 % GNP 2010 was €671.4 million - 0.52 % GNP 2009 was €722 million - 0.54 % GNP 2008 was €920 million - ? % GP 2000 was €254 million - 0.3% of GNP EU target is 0.7% of GNP by 2015 Image: 2009 Irish Aid Annual Report

  25. Ireland - Overseas Development Aid Irish Aid has 9 priority countries Irish Aid, Department of Foreign Affairs, Ireland

  26. Overseas DevelopmentAid Taken from Irish Aid Annual Report 2009

  27. Overseas DevelopmentAid Taken from Irish Aid Annual Report 2009

  28. Overseas DevelopmentAid Taken from Irish Aid Annual Report 2009

  29. Overseas DevelopmentAid Taken from Irish Aid Annual Report 2009

  30. Combating inequalities of development:NGO work… Self Help Africa (Ireland) “On a continent where up to 75% of people rely on small-scale agriculture for their survival, we believe that it is only by tackling the challenges faced by rural farming communities that real and sustained economic progress can be made across sub-Saharan Africa. Action for Development (Uganda) Action for Development is an indigenous, voluntary, non-governmental women's organization working to have women’s voices heard in the community.

  31. Combating inequalities of development:Grassroots development projects… • e.g. Grameen Bank (GB) • removed the need for collateral, • bank is based on mutual trust, accountability, participation and creativity. • provides credit to the poorest of the poor in rural Bangladesh. • October, 2011: • 2,565 branches covering 97 % of total villages • 8.349 million borrowers, • 97 % are women Weaving is one of the industries supported by the bank. Image from http://www.grameen.com

  32. Combating inequalities of development:Campaigning and Advocacy… Red nose day, UK… raising money for development projects – solution? Or not?

  33. Recommended Websites www.developmenteducation.ie www.ubuntu.ie

  34. Recommended Readings Book Title: Learning to Read the World , Authors: Audrey Bryan, Meliosa Bracken, Published: 2011, Available to download at: http://www.ubuntu.ie/research-publications.html BookTitle: 80:20 Development in an Unequal World, (6th Edition) Colm Regan (ed.) 2011. Purchase from www.8020.ie Journal Title: Policy and Practice: A Development Education Review. Available to download at:http://www.developmenteducationreview.com Paper: Soft versus Critical Global Citizenship Education, Author: Vanessa Andreotti. Available to download from:http://oulu.academia.edu/VanessaAndreotti/Papers/114660/Soft_versus_Critical_Global_Citizenship_Education_2006_

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