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FreshEd #41 - Capitalism, Inequality, and Education (Mario Novelli)

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International Development: A Conflicting Field

I think the development itself as a field is a highly contradictory field. Reproduces some of this dilemma wherever it goes, in a sense,. Is international development doing good? And redressing some of these inequalities, or actually are it there to reproduce them in different modes and different ways? I think that you see that all around. In Sierra Leone, for example, the role of the international peacekeeping community that came during the war after the war in the 1990s was massively increasing the cost of housing  in the central rising forcing prices of food up. The same with looking at international intervention in education systems. Are they improving the system? Are they reducing inequalities? Or are they actually exacerb

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