POLB90H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Free-Trade Zone, Poverty Reduction, Economic Globalization
8 Sep 2016
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International factors and political processes, issues of political power. Various intellectual attempts that explain the challenges the countries in the global south face. Focus on the west: how has the west shaped politics, political choices & economic social & political outcomes in the global south? . Impact of colonial rule, role of multinational corps & their impact on politics, international financial institutions. Export processing zones, how international power than inhibited the political resistance that stopped power groups from exploiting individuals in poorer countries. Developing areas, underdeveloped countries, 3rd world, global south. 1st or 2nd world; also wanted to distinguish themselves from communism; separate, non-aligned) In the 1970s, some countries began to do very well economically; ppl started to suggest that the term is not as useful. Collapse of the soviet union in 1980s ppl began to say that all countries have distinctive economic success. Group of 77 persisted, now has 131 members.
