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Development Ethics
Development ethics is a field of enquiry that reflects on both the ends and the means of economic development. It typically takes a normative stance, asking and answering questions about the nature of ethically desirable development and what ethics means for achieving development, and discusses various ethical dilemmas that the practice of development has led to. Its aim is to ensure that "value issues" are an important part of the discourse of development. International Development Ethics Association. What is Development Ethics Key themes Development ethics typically looks at development theories and practice and their relationships with: * * |
Economic Development
In economics, economic development (or economic and social development) is the process by which the economic well-being and quality of life of a nation, region, local community, or an individual are improved according to targeted goals and objectives. The term has been used frequently in the 20th and 21st centuries, but the concept has existed in the West for far longer. "Modernization", "Westernization", and especially "industrialization" are other terms often used while discussing economic development. Historically, economic development policies focused on industrialization and infrastructure; since the 1960s, it has increasingly focused on poverty reduction. Whereas economic development is a Public policy, policy intervention aiming to improve the well-being of people, economic growth is a phenomenon of market productivity and increases in GDP; economist Amartya Sen describes economic growth as but "one aspect of the process of economic development". Definition and terminolo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis-Joseph Lebret
Louis-Joseph Lebret (June 26, 1897–July 20, 1966) was a French Dominican social scientist and philosopher and pioneer of development ethics, who sought to "put the economy at the service of man" and advanced the notion of the "human economy". Life Louis-Joseph Lebret was born on 26 June 1897 in Minihic, Brittany, in a family of sailors, closely connected to the peasant farmers of the area. His father was a marine carpenter. He entered the Brest Naval School (“l’Ecole Navale de Brest”), became a marine officer, fought in World War I with the Lebanese squadron. and was briefly director of the port of Beirut. In 1922 he became an instructor at the Naval Academy.Goulet, Denis. "Development Ethics at Work", Routledge, 2006 When his religious vocation beca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radhika Coomaraswamy
Deshamanya Radhika Coomaraswamy (born 17 September 1953) is a Sri Lankan lawyer, diplomat and human rights advocate who served as aUnder-Secretary General and Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict from 2006 to 2012 Secretary-General Kofi Annan appointed her to the position in April 2006. In 1994, she was appointed thUnited Nations’ Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women— the first under this mandate. Her appointment marked thfirst timethat violence against women was conceptualized as a political issue internationally. Shco-founded the International Centre for Ethnic Studies (ICES)in 1982. She was nominated to the Constitutional Council (Sri Lanka) as a civil representative on 10 September 2015. In 2017, after atrocities against the Rohingya people, she was appointed a Member of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on Myanmar. Early life and education Coomaraswamy was born on 17 September 1953 in Colombo, Ceylon. She was the younger daughter of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neelan Tiruchelvam
Neelakandan Tiruchelvam, PC (; 31 January 1944 – 29 July 1999) was a Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer, academic, human rights activist and politician. He was a Member of Parliament and Director of the International Centre for Ethnic Studies. He advocated for a peaceful resolution to the Sri Lankan Civil War and is considered one of the most influential researchers on constitutional law and constitutional theory in Sri Lanka. On 29 July 1999, Tiruchelvam was assassinated when an attacker detonated his explosives next to Tiruchelvam's car. The militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam was widely blamed for the assassination, which received condemnation from around the world. In 2001 he was posthumously awarded the Law and Society Association first International Prize for "his distinguished scholarship in legal pluralism, human rights, constitutionalism, ethnic conflict, and the capacity of law to contain violence". He has also received posthumous recognition by the Train Foundati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikos Astroulakis
Nikos (, ''Níkos'') is a Greek given name. It originates from Greek ''Nikolaos'', which means "victory of the people".Liddell & Scott, Abridged Greek Lexicon Although used as a proper first name, Nikos is also a popular nickname of the original Nikolaos (Greek) or Nicholas (English). People *Nikos Alefantos, Greek football coach *Nikos Aliagas, Greek TV host *Nikos Anastopoulos, Greek footballer *Nikos Arabatzis, Greek footballer * Nikos Argiropoulos, Greek basketball player * Nikos Babaniotis, Greek footballer *Nikos Barboudis, Greek footballer * Nikos Barlos, Greek basketball player *Nikos Beloyannis, Greek communist and resistance leader * Nikos Boudouris, Greek basketball player *Nikos Boutzikos, Greek footballer * Nikos Christodoulou, Greek conductor and composer *Nikos Christodoulides, Greek Cypriot politician *Nikos Dabizas, Greek footballer * Nikos Dimitrakos, American ice-hockey player * Nikos Dimou, Greek writer *Nikos Ekonomou, Greek basketball player *Nikos Engonopoulo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amartya Sen
Amartya Kumar Sen (; born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist and philosopher. Sen has taught and worked in England and the United States since 1972. In 1998, Sen received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics. He has also made major scholarly contributions to social choice theory, Economic justice, economic and social justice, economic theories of famines, decision theory, development economics, public health, and the measures of well-being of countries. Sen is currently the Harvard University Professor, Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University. He previously served as Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. In 1999, he received India's highest civilian honour, Bharat Ratna, for his contribution to welfare economics. The German Publishers and Booksellers Association awarded him the 2020 Peace Prize of the German Book ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dudley Seers
Dudley Seers Order of St Michael and St George, CMG (1920–1983) was a British/New Zealand economist who specialized in development economics. He was born a single child of Mabel (Hallett) Seers and George C Seers. George C Seers took the family across the world including New Zealand where George C Seers was the managing director of General Motors New Zealand working with (the Honourable) R Semple, the then Minister of Transport and Minister of Public Works. From his time in New Zealand, he entered military service with the New Zealand Royal Navy during WWII. After he taught at Oxford and then worked for various UN institutions. He was the director of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex from 1967 till 1972. During WWII he served in the Royal New Zealand Navy, reaching the rank of Sub Lieutenant. One of the many WWII missions he was involved with was Operation Starkey. He served on HMS Cook and at HMS King Alfred. He was discharged from the Navy with fu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingrid Robeyns
Ingrid A. M. Robeyns (born 1972) is a Belgian/Dutch philosopher who holds the Chair Ethics of Institutions at Utrecht University, Faculty of Humanities and the associated Ethics Institute. Robeyns is also a Fellow of the Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA) and was elected the association's eighth president in April 2017. She is a notable advocate of economic limitarianism (ethical). Biography Robeyns is from Leuven, Belgium. She earned a Belgian licentiate qualification in economics from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) in 1994. She went on to study social and political science in Germany at the Georg August Universität, Göttingen (University of Göttingen). Robeyns returned to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven for her MSc in economics, which she completed in 1997. Her doctorate in economics came from the University of Cambridge in 2003. Her dissertation was on gender inequality and the capability approach. Robeyns also has an MA in philo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Palmer (philosopher)
Eric Palmer is Professor of Philosophy at Allegheny College. His academic work focuses in two areas: development ethics and history and philosophy of science. He is co-editor of '' Journal of Global Ethics'' and is President of the International Development Ethics Association. Education and career Palmer earned his B.A. in Philosophy from Carlton University in 1987, and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of California, San Diego in 1991, where Philip Kitcher was his advisor. From 1991 to 1993, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Utah, before moving to the University of Kentucky from 1993 to 1994. In 1994, he began teaching at Allegheny College Allegheny College is a private liberal arts college in Meadville, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1815, Allegheny is the oldest college in continuous existence under the same name west of the Allegheny Mountains. It is a member of the G ..., where he was promoted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martha Nussbaum
Martha Nussbaum (; Craven; born May 6, 1947) is an American philosopher and the current Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, where she is jointly appointed in the law school and the philosophy department. Nussbaum's work has focused on ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, political philosophy, existentialism, feminism, and ethics, including animal rights. She also holds associate appointments in classics, divinity, and political science, is a member of the Committee on Southern Asian Studies, and a board member of the Human Rights Program. She previously taught at Harvard and Brown. She has written more than two dozen books, including '' The Fragility of Goodness'' (1986). She received the 2016 Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy, the 2018 Berggruen Prize, and the 2021 Holberg Prize. In recent years, she has also been considered a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Early life and education Nussbaum was bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunnar Myrdal
Karl Gunnar Myrdal ( ; ; 6 December 1898 – 17 May 1987) was a Swedish economist and sociologist. In 1974, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences along with Friedrich Hayek for "their pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and for their penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena." When his wife, Alva Myrdal, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982, they became the Nobel Prize#Statistics, fourth ever married couple to have won Nobel Prizes, and the first and only to win independent of each other (versus a shared Nobel Prize by scientist spouses). Myrdal is best known in the United States for his study of race relations, which culminated in his book ''An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy''. The study was influential in the 1954 landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision ''Brown v. Board of Education''. In Sweden, his work and political influence were important to the estab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
