International Development Theories Compared

How do international development theories help us understand and conceptualize development? How do we define development, anyway? Here, our new host Miss E will lead you through different international development theories, from Modernization Theory, Dependency Theory, Neoliberalism, Critical theories, to the more contemporary expressions of development, such as Amartya Sen's Human Development and more recently, the UN's Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs. Which one best explains the international development situation today? Do any of them do a good job - or is development too complex of a concept to neatly fit into a single box.

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Sources:

UN Policy Brief, “Reflection on Development Policy in the 1970s and 1980s. https://www.un.org/development/desa/dpad/publication/policy-brief-53-reflection-on-development-policy-in-the-1970s-and-1980s/

Global Politics Guide, 2017, International Baccalaureate.

Heywood, Andrew. Global Politics. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Murphy, Robert, and Charles Gleek. Global Politics: Supporting Every Learner across the IB Continuum. Harlow, Essex: Pearson Education Limited, 2016.

Sen, Amartya (1999). Development as Freedom. New York: Oxford University Press.

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