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Human Development Notes

The document outlines notes on human development, including the United Nations Human Development Index and Millennium Development Goals. It also discusses barriers to economic development such as social conditions, disease, foreign debt, and political corruption and instability. The Millennium Development Goals aimed to reduce poverty, hunger, disease and gender inequality by 2015. Barriers to development include high birth rates, disease, structural adjustment loans that exceed export revenues, and corruption that exacerbates inequality.

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Human Development Notes

The document outlines notes on human development, including the United Nations Human Development Index and Millennium Development Goals. It also discusses barriers to economic development such as social conditions, disease, foreign debt, and political corruption and instability. The Millennium Development Goals aimed to reduce poverty, hunger, disease and gender inequality by 2015. Barriers to development include high birth rates, disease, structural adjustment loans that exceed export revenues, and corruption that exacerbates inequality.

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Human Development Notes 3/22/18

● United Nations Human Development Index: goes beyond economies and incorporates
the “three basic dimensions of human development”: a long and healthy life, knowledge,
and a decent standard of living
● UN Millenium Development Goals: (formed in 2002, goal for completion= 2015)
1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
2. Achieve universal primary education
3. Promote gender equality and empower women
4. Reduce child mortality
5. Improve maternal health
6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases
7. Ensure environmental sustainability
8. Develop a global partnership for development

Barriers to Economic Development


● Social conditions: high birth rates, low life expectancies at birth, high infant and child
mortality rates, lack of access to healthcare and education, human trafficking
● Disease: those living in the global economic periphery experience comparatively high
rates of disease and a corresponding lack of adequate health care
- Malaria “the silent tsunami”

Foreign Debt
● Neoliberalism: refers primarily to the 20th century resurgence of 19th century ideas
associated with laissez-faire (government’s “hands off” approach to economic liberation
● World Bank, International Monetary Fund
● Structural adjustment loans to periphery/semi-periphery for development and projects
● Cost of paying debt can exceed revenues from exports

Political Corruption and Instability


● In peripheral countries, a wide divide often exists between the very wealthy and the
poorest of the poor
● In impoverished places, politicians often become corrupt, misusing aid and exacerbating
the plight of the poor… and corrupt leaders can stay in power for decades

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