POL SCI 3LL3

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POL SCI 3LL3

• DEVELOPMENT AND PUBLIC POLICY
• Concept of Development

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Perceptions of Development

• Change
• Improvement
• Industrialization
• Modernization
• Technological Advancement

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Origin of Development EffortsPresident Truman

• Truman Doctrine provide economic and military
  assistance to Greece and Turkey
• Trumans Inaugural Address, 1949 make benefits
  of our scientific advances and industrial
  progress available for the improvement and growth
  of underdeveloped areas

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Development Objectives (Sponsors)

• Good intentions to share benefits with
  disadvantaged parts of the world
• Prevention of the spread of socialist ideology
• Transfer of skill and technical assistance tied
  to ideological values such as democracy and
  capitalism

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Development Objectives (Recipients)

• Provide basic necessities of life to citizens
• Improve economic and social conditions
• Help attain legitimacy for governments
• Strive to become a part of the world community

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DevelopmentLabel Terminology

• Agrarian/Industrial
• Undeveloped/Underdeveloped/
• Developing
• Newly Industrializing/Industrialized
• First/Second/Third World
• North/South

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Signs of Development

• Economic growth
• Good public health services
• Literate population
• Better standards of living
• Effective political institutions

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Common Concept of Development(Rapley)

• Pursue Industrialization
• Help raise income
• Give poor people access to goods and services
  available in developed societies

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Development

• Process by which poor countries become rich
  (Berger)
• Set of activities aimed at modernizing a society
• Keeping up with changes in other parts of the
  world

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Areas of Development

• Economic Development goal setting and allocation
  of resources (Siffin)
• Political Development increase in ability to
  sustain new types of social goals (Diamant)

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Areas of Development

• Social Development promote a dynamic
  change-oriented inclusive approach (Midgley)
• Administrative Development a pattern of
  increasing effectiveness in the utilization of
  available means to achieve prescribed goals
  (Riggs)

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Features of Development(Heady)

• stable political systems
• sound economy
• consensus of values among all groups

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Features of Development(Heady)

• responsive electorate
• civil and political institutions
• machineries for formulating and implementing
  decisions

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Development (Strategies)

• Pro-poor management reduce poverty by generating
  income among the poor
• Good governance policies that encourage
  inclusion of poor in the development process
• Visible Improvements Infrastructure building,
  high productivity, rural development

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Development (Results)

• Economic growth per capita income productivity
• Social change redistribution responsive
  government
• Human development widening peoples choices
  achievement of well-being

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Outcome of Development (Esman)

• A major social transformation
• From peasant to pastoral to industrial
  organizations
• Assimilation and institutionalization of modern
  technology
• Changes affect values, behaviour, social
  structure, economic organization, and political
  process

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Indicators of Development

• Literacy
• Per capita income
• Life expectancy
• Level of industrialization/urbanization

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Indicators of Development

• Income distribution
• Equity and equality
• Freedom and Fundamental Rights
• Rule of Law

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