Politics of Development Cheat Sheet by cl0ver69

Develo­pment

A political process creating winners and losers while requiring cooper­ation among powerful competing interests and coalit­ions.

Employment

The most politi­cally relevant aspect of economic geography

Inequa­lities exist in the opport­unities for and remune­ration of workers with different skill sets.

Its coverage is extrao­rdi­narily broad and in key ways binding

Much of daily life and opport­unity is determined by the political context via its struct­ures, policies, and operat­ions.

Provides impetus, motive, and opport­unity for indivi­duals to actively engage in the context

Much of who we feel we are is reflected in the systems and practices of our governing; and if it is not, we often engage through various forms of activism to assure that it is.

The way governing bodies approach this control has unavoi­dable and often determ­inative impact on the day to day wellbeing of indivi­duals.

Regime Type

A form or system of govern­ment; refers to the norms and rules regarding individual freedom and collective equality. Influences the policies that affect personal and public economic develo­pment.

Nations where there is a high risk of terrorism or internal conflicts are less stable. Less stable systems are less likely to see an increase in economic develo­pment because they are risky to operate in.

Level of Corruption

Identifies the level of dishonest, unethical, and illegal practices that are imposed on people and business operating in a region.

Trade Laws

These are local and intern­ational policies that impact the import­ation or export­ation of goods.

Economies are dominated by subsis­tence farming.

Contains cultural barriers to develo­pment

Forms of Western Aid Packages

Science and Techno­logy; to improve agricu­lture.

Industry; western companies establ­ishing factories

Profits are reinvested in infras­tru­ctures and new entrep­ren­eurial class emerges and urbanized that is willing to invest further and take risks

More economic growth and investment in education, media, and birth control.

Economic growth and production are at Western level of develo­pment.

Primitive Society

Earliest and histor­ically numerous of economic systems which tradition serves as the central means of bestowing order.

European Colonial

Spanish Colonies; charac­terized by sizeable indigenous popula­tions and large reserves of gold and silver, forced labor was instit­uted.

Health

The absence of illnesses

An asset indivi­duals possess, which has intrinsic value—being healthy is a very important source of wellbeing

Increases the produc­tivity of adult as a result of better nutrition

Health and Economic Growth

Affects it directly through labor produc­tivity and the economic burden of illnesses.

Stimulated by the situation in the mid 20th century when decolo­niz­ation occurred and the economic disparity between European and underd­eve­lopment nations became obvious.

Explains inequality within or between states by identi­fying different values, systems, and ideas.

The freedom of the Third World countries from coloni­zation and the strategies employed during the Cold War by Western countries in order to prevent these countries from being controlled by commun­ists.

Approach to unders­tanding economic underd­eve­lop­ment; Emphasizes the presumed constr­aints imposed by the global political and economic order.

The system of capita­listic world causes labor upheaval that damages domestic economies of underd­eve­loped countries. It diminishes the economic growth rate and ends in the increased inequality of income thus creating a gap between major and minor countries.

Deals with different forms of capitalism world- wide; takes a world- centric view and focuses on the relati­onship between countries.

WST is a multiple cultural system with a division of labor.

Uses a global mechanism of greater integr­ation with particular emphasis on the sphere of economic transa­ctions.

Commun­ica­tions and intern­ational ties; these are directed at cultural and economic factors in commun­ication systems.

Cultural element that stresses the social and economic situation of the nation

Develo­pment of sophis­ticated systems of commun­ication and globalized techno­logies thus making nations unified.

Internal or domestic situation of every country within

The units of analysis lead to the country's variables of economic growth or social indica­tors.

Education (Hoselitz)

It speeds up the introd­uction of Western values such as univer­salism, indivi­dua­lism, compet­ition, and achiev­ement measured by examin­ations.

Urbani­zation (Hoselitz)

The theory is that if popula­tions are packed more closely together, new ideas are more likely to spread than amongst diffuse rural popula­tions.

Slavery

A condition in which one human being was owned by another.

Slave

Considered by law as property or chattel.

Generation of Slaves

Captures in war, either by design, as a form of incentive to warriors, as an accidental by-product or as a way of disposing of enemy troops or civilians.

Coloni­alism

It is more than the plundering of a military and econom­ically weaker culture by a more powerful nation.

History of Coloni­alism

Plays a pivotal role in determ­ining a nation's dispos­ition toward economic and social change.

The relati­onship between the health of a population and the state of develo­pment of a society is complex and varies over time.

Results partly from an increase in income and partly from scientific progress in the fight against disease and disabi­lity.