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What does development mean in a continent where most economic growth is generated by resource extraction Amartya Sen Indian economist N obel laureate Should development be measured by GDP ID: 612462

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Slide1

Development in Africa

What does development mean in a continent where most economic growth is generated by resource extraction?Slide2
Slide3

Amartya

Sen:

Indian economist,

Nobel laureate

Should development be measured by GDP per person?What about health?What about happiness?What about democracy?Model of capabilities and human development: measure development by child mortality rates, education, life expectancySlide4
Slide5
Slide6

The

Economist Intelligence Unit

Democracy index map for 2014.

Greener

colours represent more democratic countries. Full democracies:

 

 9.00-9.99

 

 8.00-8.99

(dark greens)

Flawed

democracies:

 

 7.00-7.99

 

 6.00-6.99

(lighter greens)

Hybrid

regimes:

 

 5.00-5.99

(yellow)

 

 4.00-4.99

(orange)

Authoritarian

regimes:

 

 3.00-3.99

 

(red)

 2.00-2.99

(darker red)

 

 1.00-1.99

(brown)

 

 Insufficient information, not ratedSlide7

Do economic growth and human development go hand in hand?

Or can one have a wealthy economy and lack support for human development and capabilities? Slide8

James Ferguson

What is globalization?

What is his argument about globalization and Africa?

What did you agree with?

What did you disagree with?Was his point supported or contradicted by other readings we have done?Slide9

Rwandan Genocide

From April to July 1994, members of the Hutu ethnic majority in the east-central African nation of Rwanda murdered as many as 800,000 people, mostly of the Tutsi

minority, mainly by machete.

Begun

by extreme Hutu nationalists in the capital of Kigali, the genocide spread throughout the country with staggering speed and brutality, as ordinary citizens were incited by local officials and the Hutu Power government to take up arms against their neighbors. Process of reconciliation after the genocideRwanda now experiencing a lot of economic growth and a repressive regimeSlide10
Slide11

Causes of Rwanda’s Genocide

Most sources attribute it to long-standing ethnic tensions.

What is Peter

Uvin’s

argument?Slide12

Structural Violence vs. Acute Violence

Definitions of these terms

Infant mortality (Deaths per 1,000 live births):

Life expectancy at birth:

Does structural violence cause acute violence in the US?

Location

Non-Hispanic White

Non-Hispanic Black

Hispanic

United States

5.3

12.2

5.4

Location

White

African-American

Latino

Asian-American

Native American

United States

78.9

74.6

82.8

86.5

76.9Slide13

What were the Causes of Structural Violence in Rwanda?Slide14

Back to Evaluating

Uvin’s

Argument

What did you agree with?

What did you disagree with?Was his point supported or contradicted by other readings we have done?