Ethical turn in international development

Fisher, E. (2015) Ethical turn in international development. In: Wright, J. (ed.) International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioural Sciences, 2nd Edition. Elsevier, pp. 60-62. ISBN 9780080970875 doi: 10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.10153-9

Abstract/Summary

The ethical turn in international development relates to a tendency to question the deleterious impact of international development action on local populations and environment. As a consequence, new courses of action are proposed in order to generate socially just and environmentally sustainable global change. This tendency is most prominent in relation to the development impacts of globalization of production and trade but also appears across a wide range of development sectors.