DVM 2106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Civil Society, Social Forces, Good Governance

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: International Development and Globalization
• Course: DVM 2106
• Professor: Ishara Mahat

Document Summary

Corporations have become part of the civil society recently. Identify agents of change within the context of local and community-based development. Understand the role of civil society organizations in alleviating poverty and empowering the poor to act for themselves and helping them to uplift their socio- economic status. Global civil society: non-state actors operating at the global level and engaging with global institutions and processes. Good governance: the political system that is accountable, transparent, responsive, e cient, and inclusive. Neoliberal globalization: rejects the role of the state in the economy and leave the economy in the hands of the market and helps integration of economies across the world into the new world order. New international division of labour: the result of multinational corporations seeking out third world locations for their low-cost labour, while maintaining high- skill and value-added manufacturing the development countries. Civic driven change countering with technical understanding of development.