An Intellectual History of Development from the 1940s to the Present

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Join us at the Great Hall at UCSD on Oct. 19 at 5:30 p.m. PDT to hear Pacific Leadership Fellow David M. Malone discuss international development and what it aims to achieve: the progressive improvement of livelihood and quality of life in developing countries. Though we sometimes imagine that a unified theory of development has emerged, development theory and practice are actually hotly contested fields, and waves of new thinking have overtaken earlier ideas roughly every decade or so since 1945. This iterative approach has allowed for mistakes to be corrected, but we have not yet identified the Holy Grail with respect to development ideas and practice. In this talk, Malone will aim to stimulate ideas rather than reach for certainties or sure-fire recipes.

Speakers:

• David M. Malone, Under-Secretary-General, United Nations, Canada

• Elizabeth Lyons, Associate Professor, UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy (Moderator)

Bio:

David M. Malone is Rector of the United Nations University (UNU) in Tokyo—the UN’s principal think tank—and holds the rank of Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations. Prior to that, he was president of Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) from 2008 to 2013. A career foreign service officer, he served as Canada’s envoy to India and non-resident Ambassador to Bhutan and Nepal from 2006 to 2008, as well as a Canadian ambassador at the U.N. from 1992-1994. Read full bio online.

Cosponsors: Global Forum at International House.

Host or Publisher Peter F. Cowhey Center on Global Transformation