International development

INTRODUCTION 1.0 BACKGROUND TO STUDY Land use development patterns (also called urban form, built environment, community design, spatial development, and urban geography) is referred to as the human use of the earth’s surface, including the location, type and design of infrastructure such as roads and buildings. Land use patterns can have diverse economic, social and environmental impacts and some are more accessible and so reduce transportation costs to businesses and consumers. Transportation on

Berlin Institute also noted that in 2012, students in German federal states that were once a part of the DDR earned very high PISA scores (Berlin Institute for Population Growth and Development). PISA, the Programme International for Student Assessment, is a test given by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, that evaluates educational systems around the world by testing 15 year old students in math, reading, science, reasoning, and finance (OECD). Despite the DDR not sending as many

PROS AND CONS OF ANY STATE LEVEL POLICY (500) The State in modern times is seen more as an enemy of the people then its agent, but it still retains many qualities that allowed the development of the modern world we live in. This chapter provides the main benefits of using the State as an agent for development as well as the negative sides. The main advantage of the State is hold up in its most basic concept, the State as a collective agent of its people (Parsons, 1949) that uses the power and capital

United Nations Human Development Report and the Need for International Democratization The 2002 United Nations Human Development Report (UNHDR) is the result of many years’ study of international human progress and development. As declared in the first page of the report, "[This report] is about how political power and institutions, formal and informal, national and international, shape human progress". This statement outlines the principal theme of power dynamics and fragmentation (politics)

economy – including education. Burbules and Torres (2000) suggest that the change in dynamics through globalisation would therefore have a further cause for concern on people involved in the educational endeavour. This essay will look at international development past and present and will discuss the crucial role education plays within this with

well as the interplay between the two has constantly been raised in the literature and research of development (Arnove1980; Deininger 2000; Don 2001 & Torres 2003), inter alia in search of the way for achieving universal primary education (UPE) in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It is also the focus of international cooperation since UPE is one of the major objectives of international development aid (Aiglepierre & Wagner 2013). The year of 2015 is approaching but the issues such as global poverty

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) faced major criticism, the pressure lies on the post-2015 development goals to provide a new and efficient set of criteria for global development. The MDGs were perceived as limited and incomplete, and while there is a more extensive list of SGDs, they remain vague. Once gain the goals are high achieving and unattainable within a 15 year span. Although the world has succeeded in significantly reducing poverty, since the creation of the Millennium Development goals,

that there are various strategies which can be used to stimulate development (regional/national) and these can be categorised into classes, including inter alia, place neutral and place based development strategies. This paper however, dwells much on the analysis of the arguments levelled in support of placed based development strategies as a recipe for regional development, with reference to Zimbabwe’s provinces. By and large, development is a very broad and illusive concept hence there is no consensus

Improving China’s development policy has a personal urgency for me. For the past twenty-two years, my mother has worked in the municipal Department of Family Planning where she enforced the One-Child Policy, an effort to “create the best population structure for China’s national development.” The gap between China’s needs and the policy tools I saw used to meet those needs sparked my passion for transforming the system. As an official, my mother often had to penalize “excessive pregnancies.” I vividly

The concept of development has been disputed and challenged by several contemporary scholars since the publication of Rostow’s “Five Stages of Growth” thesis, due to it appearing to be a misconception that permits properties of non-development to cultivate. The model Rostow presents is theoretically faulty, hence many critiques of it have emerged. This essay will discuss critiques of development provided by James Ferguson, Arturo Escobar and Elisio Macamo, yet even though they are very different