GEOG 2253 - Geographies of Economic Development

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This course explores the process of economic development under conditions of globalization. The focus is upon development theory, development and underdevelopment, debt and indebtedness, the construction of ‘The Third World’, and the creation of economic dependency. Special attention is paid to ‘developing’ areas or the world, including Latin America, the Carib-bean, Africa, South Asia, and others, where regionalized and national economic development theories, developed in the post World War II era which have subsequently challenged the so-called Washington Consensus and American development discourses.