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2019 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

10. Development of Underdevelopment

Author : Úrsula Oswald Spring

Published in: Úrsula Oswald Spring: Pioneer on Gender, Peace, Development, Environment, Food and Water

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

In the early 1990s more than three billion humans had lived in poverty, often in absolute poverty in a world characterised by a planned, extravagant and destructive consumerism. According to the so-called illusion of development, which would bring the world to prosperity and well-being, poverty has increased during the past three decades. This “myth of development” has fuelled the arms race and imposed a peace relying on a balance of deadly and terrifying arms that, within a few seconds, are capable of destroying the entire planet several times, without neglecting traditional weapons used in the proxy wars in all regions of the Third World. Moreover, given the justification of the same myth, the economy rose to a high rank and it seems that ‘money’ is the new god.

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Footnotes
1
The people living furthest north – the Inuit, Innu and Sami – still lead largely traditional, non-consumerist lives in the Arctic Circle, while Australia in the south is highly industrialised. Botswana, Namibia and South Africa – three of the southernmost African countries – are much wealthier than Niger, Burundi and the Central African Republican, all of which are geographically further north. Despite these anomalies, the terms “Global North” and “Global South” are used when discussing relatively richer and poorer nations, with the Global South classification applying whenever the internal differences inside the countries are growing.
 
2
Russia annexed the Crimea in 2014 and its government and forces supported separatist movements in Eastern Ukraine, but also condoned corruption, and backed President Gorbachov’s informal agreement not to integrate countries which belonged to the former Soviet Union into NATO. This has undermined closer ties between Russia, the EU and NATO.
 
3
USA, Canada and Mexico signed the Free Trade Agreement of North America (NAFTA), which came into force on the first of January 1994.
 
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Metadata
Title
Development of Underdevelopment
Author
Úrsula Oswald Spring
Copyright Year
2019
Book
Úrsula Oswald Spring: Pioneer on Gender, Peace, Development, Environment, Food and Water

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-94711-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-94712-9

Copyright Year: 2019

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94712-9_10