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World-systems theory (also known as world-systems analysis or the world-systems perspective) [3] is a multidisciplinary approach to world history and social change which emphasizes the world-system (and not nation states) as the primary (but not exclusive) unit of social analysis. [3]
The World Development Report 2014 Risk and Opportunity: Managing Risk for Development looked at risk management from a development perspective. It argued that managing risks such as job loss, crime, disease, disaster, social unrest, and financial and macroeconomic turbulence responsibly can save lives, avert damages, prevent development ...
World Development Indicators have improved relative to the year 1990. 75% of poverty reduction shown happened in China. [1]International development or global development is a broad concept denoting the idea that societies and countries have differing levels of economic or human development on an international scale.
Neoclassical development theory became influential towards the end of the 1970s, fired by the election of Margaret Thatcher in the UK and Ronald Reagan in the USA. Also, the World Bank shifted from its Basic Needs approach to a neoclassical approach in 1980. From the beginning of the 1980s, neoclassical development theory really began to roll out.
Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (/ ˈ w ɔː l ər s t iː n /; [2] September 28, 1930 – August 31, 2019) was an American sociologist and economic historian.He is perhaps best known for his development in sociology of world-systems approach. [3]
This report [26] by the United Nations Development Group (UNDG) collects the perspectives on the 'world we want' from over 1 million people around the globe. For almost one year, people engaged in 88 national consultations, 11 thematic dialogues, and through the MY World global survey.
The Brandt line, division of world on rich north and poor south. The Brandt Line is a visual depiction of the North-South divide between their economies, based on GDP per capita, [6] proposed by Willy Brandt in the 1980s. It encircles the world at a latitude of 30° N, passing between North and Central America, north of Africa, the Middle East ...
The anthropology of development is a term applied to a body of anthropological work which views development from a critical perspective. The kind of issues addressed, and implications for the approach typically adopted can be gleaned from a list questions posed by Gow (1996).