American Human Development Report

There are many, especially from cultures other than the American culture, who believe we aren’t truly a globalized society. One of these theorists, Pankaj Ghemawat, believes that the world is only beginning to realize what true globalization means (Ghemawat). One of the leading points for this argument is that…

country is a nation with a low standard of living, a low Human Development Index (HDI) and undeveloped industrial base relative to other countries. The factors of defining a developed country involves people have short and unhealthy life, people have less education and less income. It is commonly assumed that economic development plays an important role and has a significant positive effect in developing countries. The economic development of developing countries is most important route out of…

INTRODUCTION Consideration of humans as a resource or as the fundamental unit of nation building draws our attention towards the importance of human life and its standards. Significant variations in the characteristics of human lives were observed after the industrial revolution in respect to the level of development in the specific regions. People in the developed region seemed to have better life expectancy as compared to the regions that were not. In other words the standards of human life…

The book Anti Politics machine is a Foucauldian critique in development. James Ferguson describes different stages of development programs that took place in a small landlocked country called Lesotho completely surrounded by South Africa. It has a population of 2 million where 40% of them live below International Poverty line of US . Thaba-Tseka is a district in Lesotho and its capital Camptown is the only town in the district. Same as it is historically and geographically isolated, the Third…

Kelsey Timmerman began his journey by traveling all over the world to find the negative impacts of globalization on developing countries and developed nations. In Kelsey Timmerman’s novel “Where Am I Wearing”, his search revealed mixed conclusions about globalization. When he met factory workers in China, Cambodia, and Bangladesh, he saw the positive impact of globalization in that more people had better opportunities and were coming out of poverty. However, they still worked in terrible…

I examine data collected from several international organizations, I scrutinize three indicators that best represent basic services ( i.e. Human Development Index, access to health and education). To analyze if foreign aid is helping Haiti’s economic growth and development I monitor changes in Human Development Index, trends in the numbers of those who have access to health and education. I also focus on the impact of food aid, humanitarian aid. I focus on these indicators for three reasons:…

I have been learning about the effects that humans have on the environment since elementary school. We were taught "reduce, reuse, recycle", and to turn off the sink while brushing our teeth. It has never occurred to me until reading these past week 's readings that humans were having such an effect on the earth that it warranted a whole new era: the Anthropocene. John McNeil was an author in both of this week 's readings, and I felt his style to be an practical one when communicating with his…

Programs, like OK AIM, use factors such as “[…] consumer satisfaction and personal outcomes, and the development of new QOL-references models of intervetion and service delivery [.]” (Schalock, 2004) to improve their program for the betterment of their consumers. We also know that there are multiple uses for quality of life indicators. One use would be for…

and our improper use of them are a cause of the problems we are having in the environment both directly and indirectly. All of these products like the iPod that Jason throws away can create toxic waste harmful to both nature and humans. They are also making us, as humans, increasingly lazy. These days, there are devices for younger people that prevent them from having to walk even though they are more than able. The more we rely on technology, the lazier we…

Question 1 The globalisation process has had significant impact on the overall economic performance of the nation. This is when South Africa re-joined the scene of international economies in the 1990’s during which time globalisation had begun to gain prominence. Its move from a socialist socialist movement to a democratic system in 1994 has been a major key towards its gain in economic performance during the globalisation period. This is as the first democratically elected president, Nelson…