The End of Development

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BBC

News, Politics

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2015

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Over recent decades, the richer world has poured money towards poorer countries, in the form of aid and loans for development over many decades. But is this top-down solution really effective? Anthropologist Henrietta Moore argues that the age of development is over, and that we need to move to new ideas about how to improve human lives. Professor Moore, who heads the Institute for Global Prosperity at University College London, says that the fatal flaw of "development" is that it is a concept invented by the global North and imposed on the global South. She speaks to students from across the world at Oxford University's Blavatnik School of Government, who and then faces their questions. The lecture is chaired by the school's dean, Professor Ngaire Woods. Producer: Julie Ball.

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0:55.0	Tonight we have an audience of students and faculty from all over the world to hear and question some challenging ideas.
1:01.0	They come from Professor Henrietta Moore, a distinguished
1:04.3	anthropologist who heads the new Institute for Global Prosperity at
1:08.2	University College London. Well global prosperity is on the agenda, as later this year the international community will check whether it met the Millennium Development Goals set in 2000,
1:19.0	and there will be a set of new targets for sustainable development goals. But should we be talking about
1:25.2	development at all? That's a question that Henrietta Moore will tackle in her lecture provocatively
1:30.9	titled The End of Development.
1:33.8	So now, over to Henrietta.
1:35.8	Surely, the need for development is an incontrovertible fact in the world we live in.
1:49.0	Seven billion people live on this planet, 850 million of them are living in hunger.
1:56.0	That's about 15% of the world population.
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