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impact of employment on development, impact of gender on development, role…
impact of employment on development
peet and harwick observe that economic activit work labour and trade has become globalised
Mcmicheal observed delhi call centres learning about birtish culture in order to sell better
3 billion people have jobs
1.65 billion have regular wages
develoing countries tend to be dominiated by waste,manafacturing and large industrialised call cetnres.
developed countries outsourece employment to developing world to cut costs
formal waged work being increasingly found inc ities.
gloval migration from developing world to developed has let to a massive increase in globbal numbers of developed workers.
impact of gender on development
Leonard argues that the conditions of underdevelopment are experienced by women to a grreater extent than men.
womens participation in labour world unequal to men
Aids disproportionatly effects women
90 million women recieve 0 education
feminisation of poverty
FGM
Bride Burning.
Modernisation theory blames internal cultural factors
feminist focous on the patriachal structures in developing countries
lack of political will to attack these problemss
role of education in development
modernisation theory subscribes to human capital theory, the notion that if money is invested in population, then then the return in terms of skill, aspiration and efficiency with greatly benefit the economy
sen (1999) argues the education is the key that unlocked the economic success of china and the Asian tiger countries.
despite the focus on education in the MDGs, the evidence regarding global education is not positive.
the brookings institute (2015) estimates that if education is measured by average levels of attainment - how muchchildren has learnt and how long they have spent in school.
there is little sign of progress in adult literacy. in 2014, there were 775 million illiterate adults, a decline of 1 per cent since 2000
health care and development
in the wealthy developed countries, the main causes of death are the so-called diseases of affluence - cancer, strokes and heart disease - mainly caused by excessive lifestyles.
some countries have made impressive gains in achieving health-related targets relating to the MDGs, but there are still major inequalities in health outcomes between the developed and developing world.
modernisation theory argues that developing societies need to follow the same evolutionary path as developed societys.
marxists identify a number of neo-colonial reasons why developing societys experience inequalitys in health
another problem faced by the developing world is the high cost of manufactured pharmisuticals and medical technology.
western comunitys have also been accused of creating further health problems in the developing world through irrisponsible and aggressive advertising of unhealthy products.
the fact thatmany developing countries are in debt to the west is one of the reasons they lack the money to invest in the health care system.
western countries hae been accused of poaching health-care professionals from developing countries.
poverty, which from a marxist perspective is caused by the deliberate underdevelopment of poorer countries by the west.