Status Quo of Development

Status Quo of Development

1. Deviations from the Status Quo

   • Post Development
   • No region is more developed than another (Mann)
   • Other measures of development: MPI, Happiness Index
   • View colonizers as savages (Cesaire)
   • Move to socialism (Gunder Frank
   • Import Substitution Industrialization (Prebisch)
   • Reparations (Hickel)

2. Colonialism

   • Cycle of Oppressed and Oppressor (Freire)
     • Slavery caused underdevelopment (Baker)
   • Modernization Theory (Rostow's 5 Stages)
     • Populations must acculturate to develop (Llosa)
     • Aid will, in theory, help the disadvantaged. It often falls short (Easterly)
   • Neoliberalism
     • Debt reduction and debt accumulation hurts debtors (Graeber)
     • NGOs reinforce structures of inequality (Schuller)
     • IGOs reflect existing power differentials
       • GDP is the go-to measure of development.
     • Dependency Theory: core exploits periphery