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January 2009: The Ethics of Development: Past, Present and Future
Development is a huge term. Many of us work, volunteer, and support development projects. Development projects can include large international efforts like the IMF's and World Bank's Structural Adjustment Programs, as well as local efforts like the Botswana government's resettlement of the San from the Kalahari Game Reserve.
But the term development comes with a lot of controversy as well as a responsibility on the part of those of us implementing or supporting development projects to act ethically and to ensure that those projects and programs we support are designed and run with the best interests of those they affect in mind. This, unfortunately, is not always the case.
Have you ever experienced an ethical dilemma in your development work? Is there a project going on in your country or community that you have questioned? As youth, how can we ensure that future development projects are well-intentioned, have a positive impact, and are truly beneficial to the communities they are serving? Share your thoughts on the ethics of development and its relevance to us in the past, present and future.
Additional reading as recommended by the Panorama Editorial Team:
- The Inconvenient Indigenous: Remote Area Development in Botswana, Donor Assistance and the First People of the Kalahari, by Sidsel Saugestad
- Structural Adjustment: Theory, Practice and Impacts, edited by Giles Mohan, Ed Brown and Bob Milward
- Mobile Pastoralists: Development Planning and Social Change in Oman, by Dawn Chatty
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If you have any questions, contact us @ editorial@takingitglobal.org
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