Concepts
of Development
of Development
Development
This part of the world was the first to industrialize
Europe
Pass the collection plate: throughout history these leaders have supported charity
Religious leaders
A duty to help civilize seemingly primitize, racially inferior societies was used by European countries to justify this approach to African and Asian countries
Colonization
This international institution, created in the aftermath of World War 1, provided colonies with a forum to make claims or protest their treatment
League of Nations
the process whereby simple, low-income national economies are transformed into modern industrial economies
economic development
This country had a high level of development in the 1800s and some say it was as likely as England to fully industrialize
China
Torches and pitchforks - early rulers understood that too many people living in poverty meant what?
Threat to social stability/political order
Knock, knock: Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic all received a visit from this country's military, in an effort to remake their societies
United States
You choose: Woodrow Wilson's post-World War I Fourteen Point plan for peace said nations have a right to this type of determination
self-determination
Social equality, strengthening democracy, individual liberty are not economic goals of development, but they are these types of development goal
social and political
Factors that enabled England's early and full industrialization
Coal resources, access to export markets, including the colonies, Atlantic slave economy
Need help? In addition to religious reasons, middle- and upper-class Europeans supported intervention on these continents believing they lacked the ability to help themselves
Africa and Asia
You're free! King Leopold of Belgium claimed abolishing this and civilizing the people justified making the Congo his personal property
slavery
Workers of the world unite: this international institution conducted studies, called attention to labor conditions in colonies
International Labor Organization
"Development thinking" says use technologies and experiences of other countries to do what to the development of a country
accelerate the development
This former bloc of countries opted for a strictly planned development process to industrialize as quickly as possible
Soviet Union
To promote individual responsibility and the dignity of work, Poor Houses were converted to these
Work Houses
Emancipatory thinking: once the colonized people were raised and educated to master life on their own, this would no longer be necessary/justified
Colonialism
Colonial powers extracted agricultural, mineral, and what other type of resource from their colonies?
Labor
those who are critical of the idea of development say it does this regarding the rich countries and the less developed countries
Development is a Western ideological construct that helps to maintain the inequality between the so-called First World and the so-called Third World
National income
These laws in England in the 1500s provided basic relief and temporary shelter to those unable to work
Poor Laws
Under President William McKinley, the U.S. did this to the Philippines out of its moral duty to "educate, uplift, and Christianize" the Filipinos
Conquered / annexed
Development efforts in colonies provided these benefits to the colonizers
Soften criticism, stimulate colony's economy, increase productivity