Question

What are the political and environmental impacts of global development?

Answer 1

Answer:1. Developmental policies and practices such as structural adjustment programs (SAPs).

2. The wisdom of the overall institutional objectives, such as maximization of GDP.

3. Failures to understand the various causes of poverty, including the causal contribution of some developmental policies.

4. A blinkered focus on economic growth without adequate regard to economic and environmental sustainability for the affected nation and the planet as a whole.

5. An indifference to the proliferation of chemical hazards from industrialization that increasingly become concentrated in lesser developed nations.

6. The lack of attention to the conditions under which the promotion of extractive industries becomes an economic and environmental curse rather than a source of local progress.

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