GEO 142 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Gini Coefficient, Spatial Planning, Neoliberalism
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Indicates we choose to scale at which we analyze those indicators we imagine geographies develop. Influences how we construct and organize development policies and interventions. Traditional models: after wwii, development though of increasingly as interventions, linked to emergence as international development apparatus. Including world bank and imf: primary objective was economic growth/modernization/ third world countries, non aligned, since then, there has been two main development models have been pursued. In decades of wwii, development thinkers have several factors hindering economic growth in. Import restrictions: through tariffs, state support of industrialization, via subsidues, large scale infrastructure projects, dams. Investments in social programs: to finance these efforts, governments often on debts from lending agencies, education, the world bank. Problems associated with the model: tendency to prop up uncompetitive industries, large state bureaucracies vulnerable to corruption, countries saddled with crushing debt. In 1980"s, state led development paradigm reached a crisis point in many countries: pendulum swung.
