1. and Sustainable Development
Economic Justice in Africa: Globalization, the State and the Civil Society
CODESRIA / OSISA Economic Justice Institute, Garden Court South Beach Hotel, 7 – 18 September, 2015
Lecture 5
Development
and Sustainable Development
Emmanuel O. Nuesiri
(MPhil. Cambridge; DPhil. Oxford)
Marie-Curie BRAIN Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Potsdam, Germany
and Research Affiliate Cline Center for Democracy, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, USA
Brandenburg Research Academy and International Network (BRAIN)
Cline Center for Democracy
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

2. Development Cambridge Dictionary Business Dictionary
‘the ​process in which someone or something ​grows or ​changes and ​becomes more ​advanced…’
…​healthy ​growth and development
The ​region ​suffers from ​under-/over-development (= having too little/much ​industry)
a development ​project (= one to ​help ​improve ​industry)…
Business Dictionary
The systematic use of scientific and technical knowledge to meet specific objectives or requirements.
An extension of the theoretical or practical aspects of a concept, design, discovery, or invention.
The process of economic and social transformation that is based on complex cultural and environmental factors and their interactions.
The process of adding improvements to a parcel of land, such as grading, subdivisions, drainage, access, roads, utilities.

3. Encountering Development Arturo Escobar (b. 1952 Colombia)
Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Escobar argues that President Harry S. Truman ‘invented’ development as a technical and professional activity

4. Development Impasse of the 80’s Walt Whitman Rostow (1916 – 2003)
Development theories
Modernization theory
Rostow’s five stages of growth
Primitive stage
Preparatory stage
Take-off stage
Maturity
Mass Consumption
Marxism
Dependency theories (Samir Amin in Africa)
World systems theory (Immanuel Wallerstein)
Post-modernism
Post-structuralism (Jean Baudrillard)
Post-colonialism (Achille Mbembe)
Relativism
End of Ideological History (Francis Fukuyama)
Walt Whitman Rostow (1916 – 2003)
7th US National Security Advisor
Failure to deliver prosperity for all and fall of communism led to a questioning of these structuralists theories (the development impasse crisis of the 1980’s) and to a greater appreciation of post-modernist social theories
Samir Amin (b. 1931)

5. Nobel Prize Welfare Economics 1998
Alternatives
The Washington consensus?
Structural adjustment
Neo-liberalism
Economic globalization (GATT / WTO)
Sustainable development
Development as freedom (Amartya Sen)
Amartya Kumar Sen (b. 1933)
Nobel Prize Welfare Economics 1998

6. Sustainable Development

7. Sustainable Development (SD) Gro Harlem Brundtland (b. 1939)
Sustainable development ‘seeks to meet the needs and aspirations of the present without compromising the ability to meet those of the
future’ (Our Common Future, 1987, p. 43).
Gro Harlem Brundtland (b. 1939)
Norwegian Prime Minister 1981, 1986–89, and 1990–96; Special UN Envoy and Deputy Chair of The Elders (

8. World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
Maurice Strong (l) and Stephan Schmidheiny
(Earth Summit Rio 1992)

9. Today’s Logic – Ecological Modernization

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