What do we mean by development? How can citizens, governments, and the international community foster development?
The process by which nations escape poverty and achieve economic and social progress has been the subject of extensive examination for hundreds of years. The notion of development itself has evolved from an original preoccupation with incomes and economic growth to a much broader understanding of development.
In this Very Short Introduction Ian Goldin considers the contributions that education, health, gender, equity, and other dimensions of human well-being make to development, and discusses why it is also necessary to include the role of institutions and the rule of law as well as sustainability and environmental concerns.
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Ian Goldin is a professor at the University of Oxford in England. He took up his most recent position as director of Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford, in September 2006. He is the Oxford University Professor of Globalisation and Development, and holds a professorial fellowship at Balliol College, Oxford.
As advertised, this is a short introduction to the concept of development. There is a lot of history and definition, as you’d expect. Focuses include accelerating development, aid, sustainability, and global development. I most appreciated the section on futures of development, which include UN Millennium Development Goals and discussion.
Good introduction, quite informative. Should talk more about post-development arguments imo. Kinda needs an update too (the current edition is from 2018, would be nice to read about development in the context of Corona).
Üşenmedim saydım neredeyse her sayfaya en az 2 tane ekonomik referans geliyor. Her ne kadar Ian Goldin başta ben ekonomistim diye uyarısını yapsa da bir introduction kitabı için fazlasıyla boğucu.
Oxford UP's VSI books are fantastic. Dense and short overviews of important stuff. In this book, obviously, it's all about development: the supposed effort of wealthy countries trying to help poorer countries.
I've only read the sample of it, but I felt the author's enthusiasm to work for people in developing countries. I'm grateful to know there are people working for those people in poverty, very systematically with sincere hearts, while I can't do much for them.