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04: 26 April, 2011
01. E-course : Diploma in
Integrated Development (Dip. Int. Dev)
SECTION A : DEVELOPMENT
PROBLEMS.
Study value :
04 points out of 18.
Indicative
study time: 112 hours out of 504.
Study points
are awarded only after the consolidated exam for Section A : Development
Problems has been passed.
First block : Poverty and quality of life.
Study value :
02 points out of 18.
Indicative
study time: 57 hours out of 504.
Study points
are awarded only after the consolidated exam for Section A : Development
Problems has been passed.
First block : Poverty and quality of life.
First Block : Section 1.
Analysis of the causes of poverty. [26.50 hours]
First Block : Section 2. Services needed for a good quality of
life.
First Block : Exam. [ 4 hours each attempt]
Block 1 of Section
1. Analysis of the causes of poverty. [26.50 hours]
Part 1 :
Introduction to the causes of poverty.[06.50
hours]
02. Some factors linked with
poverty.
04. Financial leakage : food
and water industries.
05. Financial leakage :
energy.
06. Financial leakage : means
of communication.
07. Financial leakage : health
and education.
08. Financial leakage : theft
of resources.
09. Financial leakage :
corruption.
Part 1 :
Introduction to the causes of poverty.[06.50
hours]
10. The industry of poverty.
(At least 30 minutes)
Look at the following slide :
10. Financial leakage:
development aid.
In his book Lords of Poverty, [McMillan,
In the years following publication of the book aid
institutions in donor nations claim to have improved their services and
approaches to development aid. They claim, for example, they no longer apply
the principle of tied aid where goods
and services of the donor nation are preferentially supplied by the donor
country itself.
A new, often profit making, industry.
Development aid operations provide work, both through
«official » organisations such as those linked with the United
Nations, and through the tens of thousands of NGOs (non-governmental
organisations) interested in development issues. Few reliable statistics on
their operations are available.
1. Research.
Make a list
of local and foreign development organisations active in your country. How many
people work for them ? How many of those working for them are
foreigners ?
2. Research.
Make a list
of local and foreign development organisation active in your chosen area. How
many people work for them ? How many of those working for them are
foreigners ?
3. Research.
Make a list
of development projects in your project area How many people work for
them ? How many of those working for them are foreigners ?
Foreign aid : a
very wide definition.
Donor nations have a tendency to define the term
“foreign aid” according to their own needs. Aid may, by way of example, include
the supply of arms, the training of soldiers and policemen, debt-cancellation,
or feasibility studies.
Consider the following factors:
Political competition (for example, the Cold War).
Competition for the control of raw materials (for
example, Coltan in R.D Congo).
Projects considered too large for local operators to
handle (for example, large dams and motorways).
Protection of the economic interests of the donor
country.
Influence of past or present colonialism.
4. Opinion.
Make a list
of the factors influencing development aid in your chosen area (if there are no
projects there, then answer the question for your country).
Where does the money available for development
actually go?
Consider aid projects financed by industrialised
countries currently under execution in your chosen area. If there are no
projects there, then answer the question for your country.
Try to get information on their budgets.
5. Research.
Make an
analysis of the budget amounts payable abroad (expatriates salaries; purchase
of imported materials; studies carried out abroad; audits; follow-up visits
etc) and of the part which is payable “locally”.
Experts, expatriates, everywhere.
Hancock Graham,
in Lords of Poverty, McMillan,
“[The «guiders and managers »] have become so
pervasive that
The resources cited by Hancock are :
(5) Famine : A Man-Made Disaster, Report for the
Independent Commission on International Humanitarian Issues, Pan Books,
(6) E.S.Ayensu, Aid to Africa, paper presenter to the
World Commission on Environment and Development, third meeting, Oslo, Norway,
21-8 June 1985.
(7) Johan Galtung, An
Anthropology of the United Nations System, in David Pitt and Thomas G.
Weiss (eds) The Nature of United Nations Bureaucracies, Croom Helm, London and
Sydney, 1986.
6. Opinion.
Are Graham
Hancock’s observations applicable today in your project area ?( If there
are no projects there, then answer the question for your country).
"Of the more than 1,500
“He added, "although these
foreign contractors employ Haitians, mostly on a cash-for-work basis, the bulk
of the money and profits are reinvested in the United States………...The dual strategy of urban sweatshops and
laissez-faire agriculture, which subordinated Haiti in the 1980s, is now it's
reconstruction plan.”
Source : D’Almeida K., Martelly - Clinton Seal Deal
for Next Wave of Disaster Capitalism in Haiti, Inter-press Service North America,
Vaccination Campaigns.
Read the notes you made on vaccinations and the role
played by pharmaceuticals multinationals in 07. Financial leakage : health and education.
7. Research.
Which vaccination
campaigns have been carried out in your project area?
What was the
role played by foreign aid in the form of personnel and products?
What was the
rate of infection of the sicknesses in question before and after the
vaccinations?
Help – I’m hungry!
Read the article How America is Betraying the
Hungry Children of Africa, by Alex Renton, Observer, 27 May 2007.
8. Opinion.
Write a review of the article
Now
read the article “Miami Rice” : The Business of Disaster in Haiti by Beverley Bell and Tory Field, CommonDreams.org,
◄ First block :
Poverty and quality of life.
◄ Index : Diploma in Integrated Development (Dip.Int.Dev)