Chapter 30 Learning Objectives

Ethics of Development

To understand development ethics as an essential dimension of international development studies, for explanatory work and self-awareness as well as in evaluation and policy design.
To recognize issues in values-sensitive thinking about development: in conceptualizing costs and benefits, assessing who bears them, and asking which types of change process are legitimate.
To become alert to which issues, identities, and interests get considered and which get downgraded or ignored.
To identify relevant tools in development ethics for description, analysis/evaluation, and action.