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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Development in Africa
What does development mean in a continent where most economic growth is generated by resource extraction?Slide2Slide3
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 expectancySlide4Slide5Slide6
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)
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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 regimeSlide10Slide11
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?