'Development'. Now what exactly dos that mean? where does it start?
where does it end? 'developing' from what to where?
Isn't it time to cast 'development' and 'developing' in the bin along
with 'Third World'? Maybe we should call it 'Northernisation' or
'occidentalisation'. Then we could do away with 'globalisation' as
well. Would make it much easier for people to remember!
PB.
>Surely the point is that development is difficult to bring about and so
>measures and initiatives that fail to achieve their targets are subsequently
>branded as easy and empty rhetorical gestures by cynical or disillusioned
>practitioners and academics.
>
>> ----------
>> From: Alan Patterson[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>> Reply To: Alan Patterson
>> Sent: 12 December 2000 16:34
> > To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: White Paper on Globalisation
>>
>> Adam Tickell wrote:
>> >
>> > The point being that the UK government is committed to development
> > > rather than easy and empty rhetorical gestures?
>>
>>
>> Er, Some mistake here surely? - The point being that the UK government
>> is committed to development AND easy and empty rhetorical gestures.
>>
>> --
>> Alan
>>
>> Alan Patterson
>> Department of Geography & Earth Sciences
>> Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middx. UB8 3PH UK
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 15:35:51 +0000 David McKnight
>> > <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> >
>> > >
>> > > What follows is a variation on the text from a comic strip on the
>> World Bank.
>> > > Below that is the press release from DFID about their White Paper
>> on Globalisation.
>> > >
>> > > ***************
>> > >
>> > > Clare Short is reading out a statement about a new government
>> report:
>> > >
>> > > "20 years ago governments and bureaucrats met and commited
>> ourselves to eradicating world poverty and hunger.
>> > > Since that time we have vigourously promoted our policies of free
>> trade, export-led growth, inward investment, trickle down economics and
>> structural adjustment.
>> > > However... in the meantime the gap between the rich and the poor
>> has done nothing but widen.
>> > > And so, 20 years hence, what is now needed is obvious...
>> > > Another 20years of the same."
>> > >
>> > > "..And so the document now reads: 'This government fully and
>> totally commits itself to the complete eradication of world poverty...as
>> long as this does not involve (a) actually changing anything, or (b)
>> preventing the rich world dominating the global economy'."
>> > >
>>
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