Presentation Group

You have an entire lesson (40 mins), you can do an activity, sing, dance, make a game, use PowerPoint, use the whiteboard, debate, use the Internet, etc.! Everybody makes a handout (1 A4) for all students (and me). Think economics and think how certain things can be useful for others on the exam. Evaluate, debate and give examples!!! Leave time for questions!!!

Question Group You are the question group. Think of good questions or discussion points to ask.

1. Conflict trap (3 students) Explain the problem, make a diagram, find a country (countries) and come up with a solution. P: Spyros, Suzanna, Douah Q: Ece, Agnesa, Rahma

2. Natural resource trap (3 students) Explain the problem, make a diagram, find a country (countries) and come up with a solution. P: Thor, Becky, Emilie Q: William, Max, Asad

3. Bad governance (2 students) Explain the problem, make a diagram, find a country (countries) and come up with a solution. 3 students P: Crisztina, Hadil Q: Elvis, Hayk, Yashil

4. Landlocked with bad neighbours (3 students) Explain the problem, make a diagram, find a country (countries) and come up with a solution. P: Agnesa, Ece, Rahma Q: Hadil, Krisztina 5. AID, NGO’s and Fair-trade (3 students) Explain the role of aid in development, explain what are NGO’s and what is fair trade and what do they all do. Come up with a country example(s). Evaluate the effectiveness of aid! Are there alternatives? P: Hayk, Elvis, Yashil Q: Suzanna, Spyros, Douah 6. The IMF, the WTO and the World Bank (3 students) What are they, why have they been created and evaluate their effectiveness. How can they been improved? Use country example(s)! P: Asad, William, Max Q: Thor, Emilie, Becky ONLINE FREE RESOURCES FOR DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS

All Africa: http://allafrica.com/ Good for materials on African economies and useful to find complementary information for IA commentaries Bized Virtual Developing Country: http://www.bized.ac.uk/virtual/dc/ A virtual trip to Zambia to be confronted with development issues Eldis: http://www.eldis.org/ The Institute for Development Studies (Sussex) portal for development economics. Many papers freely available on this area of economics. You can subscribe to their newsletter Fair Trade Definition: http://www.maketradefair.com/en/index.php? file=21052002111743.htm&cat=4&subcat=1&select=5 The definition provided by Make Trade Fair. Additional links provided. Giorgio Secondi’s Page: http://faculty.oxy.edu/gsecondi/dev.html A list of resources exclusively for development economics, very appropriate for the IB section 5 Human Development Report: http://hdr.undp.org/ Check this site for latest rankings in the HDI and also, once the printed edition has been sold and distributed, the site allows you to download the full Human Development Report Human Development Reports: http://hdr.undp.org/ A site to download the latest HDR including the interactive map with HDR, trends in HD, the HD video and the HDR Toolkit. IMF/World Bank and Economic Growth: http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/IMF_WB/IMF_WB_Facts.html A critical look at the two institutions as written on The Internationalist IMF/World Bank good for Growth? http://www.cepr.net/publications/econ_growth_2001_05.htm#_ednref1 An article for teachers offering excellent background information fot the debate. Institute of Development Studies (IDS) : http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/global/strat1.html Information and papers on development economics. It is recommended to subscribe to their bulletin to get latest news and papers about development issues. Introduction to Fair Trade: http://internationalecon.com/fairtrade/index.html Theory and articles relating to Fair Trade. Just Business: http://www.jusbiz.org/showpage.php?pagename=resourcesindex: free teaching resources, mainly games and role play activities on development and the environment. Life Online: http://www.tve.org/lifeonline/index.cfm This is one of the most important sites for audiovisual material useful for development economics. It distributes the whole series of excellent Life documentaries shown by BBC World Livelihood Connect: http://www.livelihoods.org/ Lessons and resources on development Making a Difference: http://www.open2.net/makingadifference/index.htm: Open University and the BBC offer audio resources around development issues. Microfinance Gateway: http://www.microfinancegateway.org/ Almost everything you need to know about this topic of the syllabus. Further links included. Microfinance: http://www.adb.org/Microfinance/ Excellent information provided by the Asian Development Bank. Oxfam Education: http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what_we_do/issues/education/index.htm A most important site for sensitive development education Sustainable Development Gateway: http://www.sdgateway.net/introsd/ The basics of the concept: Definition, Actions, Characteristics and Further Exploration. The Whirled Bank Group: http://www.whirledbank.org/ A site that takes a critical and ironical approach to the World Bank programmes. Very interesting and, at times, amusing Trade v. Aid Counterpoint: http://www.aworldconnected.org/article.php/1282.html Two articles, one asking for more aid and the other asking to stop aid. Good for evaluation of Aid. Trade v. Aid pros and cons: http://www.idebate.org/debatabase/topic_details.php?topicID=325 An online debate on the issue. Excellent resource for evaluation. WIDER, World Income Inequality Database: http://www.wider.unu.edu/wiid/wiid.htm Real world data bank on inequality apt for Lorenz curves and Gini coefficients. World Bank on aid Effectiveness: http://www.worldbank.org/research/aid/africa/release/aid.htm Lessons from ten case studies on Africa World Bank site for young people: http://youthink.worldbank.org/ Information about competitions and development economics education World Development Indicators: http://www.worldbank.org/data/wdi/ The most relevant figures about the developing countries BOOKS

Title Author Publisher ISBN No. Economic Louis Putterman http://www.econ.brown.edu/fac (Free) Development /Louis_Putterman/courses/ec1 51/#Overview Beyond Economic Katherine Sheram , http://www.worldbank.org/dep (Free) Growth Tatyana P. web/beyond/beyond.htm Soubbotina A recipe for disaster Oxfam http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what_ (Free) (Sustainable we_do/issues/key_papers.htm Development) No Soft Landing Oxfam (Trade and http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what_ (Free) Protectionims) we_do/issues/key_papers.htm Truth or Oxfam (US and EU http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what_ (Free) Consequence protectionism) we_do/issues/key_papers.htm Blood on the Floor Oxfam (On http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what_ (Free) poverty) we_do/issues/key_papers.htm Beyond HIPC Oxfam (On debt http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what_ (Free) cancellation) we_do/issues/key_papers.htm The Cornerstone of Jamie Schnurr, http://books.google.com/ (Free) Development Susan Holtz (page by page viewing) African Voices on Thankdika http://books.google.com/ (Free) Structural Mkandiwire, (page by page viewing) Adjustment Charles C Soludo The E-Book on Center for http://www.uiowa.edu/ifdebook/ (Free) International International ebook2/ebook.shtml Finance and Finance and Development Development of the University of Iowa