DVM 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Washington Consensus

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: International Development and Globalization
• Course: DVM 1100
• Professor: Mahmoud Masaeli

Document Summary

Canada and challenges of international development and globalization. What are the main assumptions, strength, and weaknesses: theory of basic needs, dependency theory, its versions and the main assumptions, neo-liberalism s main assumptions, washington consensus. The format of dgd: in the beginning of the session, teaching assistant receives questions from students and answers. In the process of answering and clarification students may contribute in the answers and debates (for around 15 minutes. If no question, go right away to the next part): after this, dgd is divided into two groups to discuss the following (under the discretion of the ta you may take another topic of interest): One group advocates the mainstream (economic development and/or foreign aid programs and ethics of help). The other group takes a critical position (essentially using human development concept or dependency theory). Argument is required for a good understanding of the main ideas, assumptions and weaknesses.