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History of Inequality in Aid & Development

History of Inequality in Aid & Development

In 2025, we are witnessing how destructive it can be when the most economically powerful, but minority, countries make decisions that affect the rest of the world's well-being. During this time of instability and change within the aid and development sectors, people are asking "what next?" 

Kuja has done a lot of thinking about what the future of a new system can look like - building on the decades of efforts to localise aid and development, #ShiftThePower, and decolonise. To be able to consider "what next?" - we must understand "how did we get here?"

This course will support you to unpack the foundations of aid and development - and fully grasp the ways it was built on centuries of inequality. 


Last Update 02/27/2025
Completion Time 2 hours 10 minutes
Members 6
  • Introduction
    1Lessons · 5 min
    • Key Terms
  • Pre-Colonial Aid & Development
    2Lessons · 15 min
    • Journal Prompt
    • Pre-Colonial Models of Aid (video)
  • The Foundations of Global Aid & Development
    2Lessons · 30 min
    • Post-Colonial Aid & Development
    • Institutionalization of Aid & Development
  • Continued Colonial Inequalities
    4Lessons · 1 hr 10 min
    • Debt Cycles & Dependency
    • Colonial Roots of Global South Debt
    • Global Trade
    • Global Economics (interview)
  • Conclusion
    1Lessons · 10 min
    • Concluding Journal