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 | 
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| Completion Time | 2 hours 10 minutes | 
| Members | 55 | 
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                    Introduction1Lessons · 5 min- 
        
        Key Terms
 
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                    Pre-Colonial Aid & Development2Lessons · 15 min- 
        
        Journal Prompt
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        Pre-Colonial Models of Aid (video)
 
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                    The Foundations of Global Aid & Development2Lessons · 30 min- 
        
        Post-Colonial Aid & Development
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        Institutionalization of Aid & Development
 
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                    Continued Colonial Inequalities4Lessons · 1 hr 10 min- 
        
        Debt Cycles & Dependency
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        Colonial Roots of Global South Debt
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        Global Trade
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        Global Economics (interview)
 
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                    Conclusion1Lessons · 10 min- 
        
        Concluding Journal
 
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