Helen’s Blog for SSL on Development – Thursday 1st
March
Hello Everybody!
I wanted to post a few links and provide some background
information for what i’ll be discussing in mine and Rachel’s presentation about
Development this Thursday. I will be concentrating on explaining what the
relationship is between development and the political to you. Hopefully in a
coherent way!!!!
I have split my part of our presentation into two sections.
Firstly I will explain the external political factors of the relationship and
then go on to explain the internal. Sorry if that sounds cryptic but i’ll
provide more detail on the day!
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I will be referring to Truman’s Inaugural Speech
from 1949 and the 4 Points he outlined concerning development. If you get
chance to read through it please think about the US situation at the time these
points were written because I will be asking for suggestions from you for why the US pursued international
development after World War 2 during the presentation.
Here’s a link for
Truman’s inaugural speech - http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/50yr_archive/inagural20jan1949.htm
If that doesn’t work go to www.trumanlibrary.org and type in
‘Truman’s Inaugural Speech 1949’ into the search engine at the top of the page!
·
Later on I will be speaking about DFID, the UK
government’s Department for International Development, and what they do. I will
be working from the website during the presentation so you don’t necessarily
have to know anything about them beforehand but here’s the link to their web
site for anybody who’s interested – www.dfid.gov.uk
Most developed countries now have development agencies or
departments within government and I will refer to this point to highlight the
importance of international politics in development. However I won’t have time
to go into detail about specific development departments during the
presentation. I have listed a random few below, with web addresses, which I
found through a simple Google search of Development Agencies in case you want
to have a closer look. They can be translated by doing a google search and
clicking on ‘translate this page’ underneath the link.
US Agency on International Development (US Aid) – www.usaid.gov
·
Within Internal Political factors I will discuss
political development and be asking why
is political development important for achieving economic and social
development? And will be asking if anybody has any suggestions!
·
Finally (phew!), I will be making reference to
NEPAD (The New Partnership for Africa’s Development) but will again not have
time to go into detail so here’s their web address for anybody interested to
know more about them – www.nepad.org
·
We will
be using a video of Amartya Sen discussing International Development to
conclude our presentation so I thought it would be good to give some background
information on him.
Professor Amartya Sen
is an Indian economist and is currently professor of Economics and
Philosophy at Harvard University, but was until recently the Master of Trinity
College, Cambridge and is respected as one of the best academics in his field.
He has written a number of books on development, his main areas of research
being economic development, welfare economics, public health, gender studies
and moral and political philosophy. Chapter 2 of his book Development as Freedom is listed as a reading for Week 5 of our
module! He has been the Honourary President for OXFAM and has contributed a
huge amount in understanding and achieving economic, political and social
development in under developed countries. In 1998 he won the Nobel Prize for
Economic Sciences.
A full autobiography of Amartya Sen can be found on the
Nobel Prize website, the link is listed here - http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1998/sen-autobio.html
That’s it until Thursday. I hope what i’ve written hasn’t
been too complicated to understand but do not worry if you don’t because I will
be referring to and explaining all the information listed above in the
presentation!
Helen McFeely
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