Re: Re: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2001

["Ian Murray" <seamus2001@xxxxxxxx>]

> >  > I've been looking over the United Nations Development Programme
> >(UNDP)
> >>  annual report: "HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2001:
> >>  Making new technologies work for human development", published
today
> >on the
> >>  UNDP website:
> >>  http://www.undp.org/hdr2001/
> >>
> >>  It is a paean of praise to the globalising neoliberal model of
> >development
> >>  and strongly argues for the TRIPS intellectual property rights
> >regime, for
> >>  corporate rights generally, and for the benefits of new
technologies
> >in
> >>  pharmaceuticals, genetic engineering in agriculture and other
> >contentious
> >>  areas. The HDI indices are surely worth deconstructing.
> >==========
> >Call Arturo Escobar..........
> >
> >Ian
>
> There is an on-line dialogue titled "Beyond the Search for a
> Paradigm? Post-Development and Beyond" at
> <http://www.sidint.org/journal/online/>.  While criticisms of
> "modernization theory" imposed by capitalist ideologues &
> institutions are welcome, the "post-developmentalist" school of
> thought represented by Arturo Escobar and the like is a problem in
> the same way that "post-modern" philosophy is.
>
> Yoshie
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Well, he did ask for deconstruction. :-)

Maybe we should try David Ruccio?

Ian