South-South cooperation for development 1. Introduction South-South Cooperation (SSC) and Triangular Cooperation (TC) are emerging forms of aid architecture far from the traditional “North-South” model. SSC, based on the attainment of internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals, is meant to strengthen developing countries’ voice and their bargaining power in multilateral negotiations. It also gives them the opportunity to promote self-sufficiency among
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overall development of the common people. Building strong ICT infrastructure is the pre-requisite for making Bangladesh a digital one. For this, we need to focus on the following relevant issues assessing the harsh reality that hinders our development in this context. Latest statistics show that Bangladesh faces a power deficit of up to 200 MW against a demand of 5000 MW daily. It may be noted that for proper ICT development an uninterrupted power supply is a must. For the ICT development Internet
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Developing World I have chosen to write about the Development and Democracy. I have choose this topic, because I have long believed that the rich countries are more likely than the poor countries to be democracies as pointed out by sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset. As I was researching, I found that the vast majority of LDC were under-developed because of the lack of economic develop. Wars, depressions, institutional changes, elite decisions, and specific leaders also influence what happen
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that central economics problems include different issues on the production of goods and service (Todaro & Smith, P. 26). 5— By understanding development, developing nations can identify the problems and formulate policy to improve people’s wellbeing (Todaro & Smith, P. 5). I think currently nations can’t agree on a rough definition of development because most of them have different approaches, measurements and standards. But I think in the future there might be a working definition that the
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To what extent can the Sustainable Development goals be fully achieved? The Sustainable Development goals (SDGs) are a set of future targets regarding future international development. These are set to replace the Millennium Development goals (MDGs), which have not yet been met, that expire at the end of 2015. The SDGs consist of 169 targets categorised into 17 goals which contain a broad range of sustainable development issues. All the goals intertwine together synergistically and so make some
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low levels of economic development face such huge challenges that they cannot hope to address them without assistance from the rest of the world’. To what extent do you agree with this view? Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which is the total value of goods and services produced by a country in a year, along with Gross National Product (GNP). This measures the total economic output of a country. These are two major indicators that help gauge a countries economic development. Several countries around
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Community development is a way of stregnthening civil society by prioritising the actions of communities and their perspective in development of social, economic and environmental policy:(scdc.org.uk). Community development is all about changes and growth, its work involves communities and also industries that concerns them, The centre focus of community development is to work
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Development is a process in which things are changed or made better in an attempt to improve the overall environment. GDP is an indicator of development used by many people. The advantages of using GDP are that it gives one single clear figure, which is easily presentable. The fact it is a single figure also makes is very easily comparable when measuring countries against each other. Disadvantages of using GDP as a measure of development include, the fact that GDP does not take disparity in incomes
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“Transport in many ways is the life-blood of a nation’s economy; without it, no interchange of goods of people would be possible. The necessity that such interchange would become as cheap, quick and safe as possible has caused increasingly dramatic developments over centuries in both transportation methods and routes; from the times when slow vulnerable Camel caravans crossed the deserts of Africa and Asia to the modern Jet planes circling the world in twenty four hours in recent times. Efficient, up-to-date
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Women in development (WID)[edit] Theoretical approach The term “women and development” was originally coined by a Washington-based network of female development professionals in the early 1970s[3] who sought to put in question the trickle down theories of development by contesting that modernization had identical impact on men and women.[4] The Women in Development movement (WID) gained momentum in the 1970s, driven by the resurgence of women's movement in northern countries, whereby liberal feminists
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