The Obesity of International Cooperation. "Sustainable" Policies and Unsustainable Results
Wichtige Details
Datum / Dauer: Donnerstag, 20.11.2008
- Sprache
- Englisch/English
- Durchführung
- In Präsenz
- Veranstaltungsort
- Simón-Bolívar-Saal
Vortragsreihe "Die Tropen – Ansichten von der Mitte der Weltkugel"
The most important challenge in this new millennium is the quality of economic growth, over and above its quantity. Social, political and environmental inequalities are one of the main causes of the unsustainability of development. While the growing homogenization of consumption patterns and production caused by globalization is slowly improving quality of life for some, the increasing growth of unsustainable consumption leads to severe pressures over the base of natural resources and increases distributive inequalities. Prof. Dr. Roberto Pereira Guimarães (Fundação Getulio Vargas) analyses in his lecture how the social dimensions of unsustainable development, particularly in the Tropics, require a special attention to the poor record of international cooperation vis-à-vis international trade, which appear to have become the trade mark of inequalities produced by an asymmetric globalization.