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Population: 44.86 million
Area: 582,646 sq km
Currency: Shilling
GDP: 60.94 Billion
GDP: Growth: 5.3%
Major Languages: Swahilli, English
Introduction:
Some of the earliest traces of man is found in kenya. The republic of Kenya first gained independence in 1963 and Republic of Kenya was formed in 1964. As of today the main issues that they have are high unemployment rate, and major conflict with extremist groups. In addition nearly 30% of the population lives on a dollar a day and with the high preveralance for AIDS areas are suffereing.
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Article discusses the Sh 1.2 billion investment from company Powerhive in order to start a solar energy project to power 90,000 people on a local grid.
http://allafrica.com/stories/201601280507.html
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Some key theorys and facts in this section where
Development Theory: relyys on economic growth, started in 1949 when President Truman stated that poverty threatend true prosperity. It also hinges on that less developed nations need to catch on on this linear economic growth path.
Dependency Theory: underdevelopment is not the result of inadquencies in economics, but rather the outcome of development elsewhere.
SAP: Structural adjusment programs created by IMF and WB used to modify the structure of economy.
Debt crisis: Started in 1980 countries such as Brazil, Mexico could no longer service there depts which impacted developed countries by the international demand going down.
1996 Asian Crisis: Thailand devalued their currency which caused international investors o withdraw large portions of capital, this lowered economic growth for the countrie and other surrounding countries.
Post Development Schools: A discource and set of practices, rather than a structure of production or trade market, such as development theory and/or neo-liberalism.
Sustainable development is being defined, and it clusters these definitions into 3 broad categories: status quo, reform, and transformation. Of these 3 categories I choose the reform model for the best definition of sustainable development. The reason that I chose this model is because it takes into account the people and economy. They also accept that there are mounting problems within society, but do not consider ecological and social system as an impending collapse. Something that I agree with is the acceptance of large shifts in policy and lifestyle and that government plays a key role towards sustainable development. These are some points that interested me when I reviewed this concept. The things that I didn’t agree with in other definitions where the fact that in status quo takes on too much a light role within sustainable development, I believe transformation tries to make too much of a change reform takes major ideas from both definitions.
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I'm a Colonialism created a system that still lingers today. In the article “Instituting the development project” Phillip McMicheal states that colonialism exposed non-European cultures and ecologies to profound disorganization and I couldn’t agree with him more. The definition he gave us was that colonialism is the subjugation by physical and psychological force of one culture by another. The system the colonialists created has no unity to the natural world and has resulted in a disorganized system. Lets take land ownership for instance land was taken from the indigenous people under the pretense of the Europeans laws, some laws stated that if there wasn’t a government in place within that land it now belonged to the queen of England. This allowed a horrible outcome for the indigenous people and their land. It created cultural genocide allowed for the extraction of labor, cultural treasures, and resources to enrich the colonial power. This caused globalization to occur which was completely different ideology than what the people where doing at the time. Industrialization allowed for a change in labor and economy, humans depended on their local ecosystem to supply what they needed; they harvested just what was necessary. Now we live in a society that relies on a monoculture agricultural system and overharvesting which depletes natural resources. A perfect example of this is what occurred when the East Indian company destroyed Indians native crafts by raising the tariffs of Indians finished goods by 70 to 80 percent which made it virtually impossible for Indian to trade. Colonialism is still felt in certain parts of the southern hemisphere the majority of the poor marginalized countries are in the southern hemisphere and all of these countries are economically dependent on the developed countries and agencies such as the IMF and WTO. Many believe that there is a huge inequality between the North and South. The reason why this is considered disorganization is because the colonial powers through combination of economic and political measures were able to control labor and production in those territories but when they left they didn’t leave them much, and in the end destroyed their natural system.. Click here to add your own text and edit me. It's easy.
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