Economics: Development Day 8, Weds/Thurs, April 17th/18th Amartya Sen: Development as Freedom excerpt Kerala and Bolivia articles (success through communism and socialism) Finish PPT lecture on Strategies for Development No Homework Question for your student: What should a country take into account when trying to lift itself out of poverty? What strategy do you believe […]
Economics: Development Day 7, Mon/Tues, April 15th/16th Argentina Import Substitution Industrialization article and questions https://www.npr.org/2018/11/22/668633266/in-russia-a-dairy-owner-dreams-of-delivering-cheese-to-vladimir-putin Continue Chapter 32 lecture No Homework Question for your student: Why might a country implement ISI? Share
Economics: Development Day 6, Fri/Mon, April 12th/15th https://www.ted.com/talks/tshering_tobgay_this_country_isn_t_just_carbon_neutral_it_s_carbon_negative Bhutan article Development strategies and goals brainstorm Start Lecture on Chapter 32: Development Strategies No Homework Question for your student: Why does a nation work to increase output? Why does GDP matter? Does it? Share
Economics: Development Day 5, Weds/Thurs, April 10th/11th https://www.transparency.org/ Jigsaw of the regional analysis Review of Transparency International methodology http://www.stopdisastersgame.org/ Homework: Stop Disasters worksheet and Rwanda development questions due Friday/Monday Question for your student: Why did we play a video game today? What aspects of development economics did this game reinforce? Share
Economics: Development Day 4, Mon/Tues, April 8th/9th Barriers to growth articles and jigsaw discussion Review Chapter 31 (Barriers to growth) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=docGVZFIMFI&t=358s Homework: Rwanda test questions due at the end of the week Question for your student: What are the cascading impacts of the video Widow’s Cry? Share
Economics: Development Day 3, Thurs/Fri, April 4th/5th Review Chapter 30 (Sources and consequences of growth and development) Start Rwanda Test Questions Homework: Rwanda Test Questions will be due next week Question for your student: Does and increase in GDP equate to an increase in standard of living? Share
Economics: Development Day 1, Tues/Weds, April 2rd/3rd Chapter 29 Lecture & Development Articles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6fX8ovhxzk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd3KlOcUcak Rwanda Articles No Homework Question for your student: How might a high dependency ratio negatively impact a nation? Share
Economics: Trade Internal Assessment Day 1, Weds/Thurs, March 13th/14th https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT8t7QzzN3o Example Reviews Article Selection No Homework Question for your student: Please explain the main points of discussion within the article you have chosen. Share
Economics: International Trade Day 6, Tues, March 12th Protectionism review problems Start searching for Commentary articles Homework: Start Looking for third and final commentary articles. Must be a new country and new newspaper. Key search terms: trade agreement, tariff, quota, subsidy, free trade, protectionism, duty. Optional (OPTIONAL: due to snow days and need to finish […]
Economics: International Trade Day 5, Thurs March 7th Finish exchange rate lecture Practice exchange rate problems Begin review of Balance of Payments (Chapter 27) Homework: Optional S.W. 26.7 Question for your student: How might you be able to profit off of Brexit through the ForEx? Share