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Judging

When the tab rolls Wait outside the announcement room with a sign indicating the room you’re going to Gather teams that are in your room – they’ll rush at you prepping in a panicked manner you shouldn’t have to look far Take them to the room If you have time go back to the announcement room and jot down the teamnames in your room and the chair judge

How to judge Offer to time if you can – it’s just hitting a table Divide page down the middle into either 2 or 4 boxes As speeches are given write down everything important you think is said – as much detail as possible Highlight/star/write exciting comments next to anything you think important at the end of each speech

How to judge 2 As the debate goes on think about what teams are beating what other teams and for what reasons Think about things like was the rebuttal to the point that was actually made or was it irrelevant – if you think irrelevant jot down a reminder Was the point made relevant to the debate or just talking about a similar issue – did the logical justifications flow from uncontroversial premises?

How to judge 3 After the debate is over the chair judge will give you a few minutes to think about your call Eventually the judge will ask you to give a call – if you don’t have a 1 st -4 th straight away that’s fine, just give some idea of what teams beat what teams

After the debate Once the chair has filled in the ballot they are needed to give feedback Given this and that Warwick people are those who know their way around the uni they’ll ask you to run it back to the tab room I will take it from you and enter it into the software – you’re then free to return to the room and listen to the rest of the feedback

Some terms Rolling – If the panel is not in agreement the chair will call a vote on positions. If the chair is outvoted it is called rolling – they may or may not ask a wing to give the feedback if they don’t feel they can defend the call Knifing – When a team contradicts another team on their own bench. The team knifing generally has that argument (note not their whole speech) rendered invalid.

Ordinary Intelligent Voter/ Informed Global Citizen – the standard of knowledge by which to judge debates. No specific knowledge of any issue and a front page knowledge of the news You have no principled assumptions – even if something you know to be false is said if this is not pointed out in the debate it stands Role fulfillment – Whether or not a speaker fulfilled the duty of what they do in a debate (did the PM provide a mech, did the summary add material or not)

How to be a good wing

Say Words Be active in the discussion, but also be succinct A wing that doesn’t talk much is a wing that doesn’t get anything above average in feedback, and is just a bit of a dead weight during the adjudication

Be Specific ''We thought that second opposition really brought the case home for us, so they won the debate.'' ''First proposition talked about rights, but I really didn't find it persuasive.'' ''First opposition had some interesting things to say, but the analysis didn't get better until second opposition.''

Judge the Debate that Happened ''Proposition never talked about rights in this debate.'' ''It took until the summation speaker until we heard anything about rights.'' ''I really wouldn't have propped it like that.''

Metrics: Up For Grabs, and Not Pre-Set You should listen to teams' arguments about what our aims and principles should be, and evaluate the claims of harms or benefits in that context. “War is never legitimate” vs. “War is legitimate in this specific case, because reasons” - no clear better or worse option

Judge the debate while it happens After the first half you should have a rough idea whether OG beats OO or if it is the other way round This call is not definitive (revisit it after the debate using your notes!) The point is, don’t be a passive note-taker.

Taking Notes 1. Generic: Black/Blue 2. Criticisms: Red/Pink 3. POIs: Green 4. [during adj] Highlighting key points: Purple Why use colours? It’s pretty. Also it makes reading your notes easier.

The World Bank

Roadmap General facts How does it work? Goals The Washington Consensus(reforms)+criticism Free Trade basics Failure examples Successes examples

The World Bank General facts: Financial institution of the UN Based in Washington, DC 188 countries are members Gets its money off financial markets/from member countries It is part of the ‘World Bank Group’ World Bank Group International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) International Development Association (IDA) International Finance Corporation (IFC) Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID)

The World Bank What does it offer? Loans Guarantees Risk management products Analytical and advisory services Examples of borrowers: Argentina, Chile, Belarus, Botswana, Brazil, Jamaica, Ecuador, Vietnam etc. Countries by voting power: 1.USA-also veto power 2.Japan 3.China 4.Germany 5.France 6.UK 7.India

The World Bank-Goals Eradicating extreme poverty and hunger Achieving universal primary education Promoting gender equality and empowering women Reducing child mortality rates Improving maternal health Combating HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases Ensuring environmental sustainability, and Developing a global partnership for development.

The World Bank Often, in return for the loans, the World Bank demands of the recipient to put in place certain reforms such as: Austerity Devaluation of currencies Trade liberalisation (lifting import and export restrictions) Removing price controls and states subsidies Improving governance and fighting corruption

The World Bank Criticism: Regressive conditions(shock therapy criticism) Lack of institutional framework to apply the reforms Majoritary decisional power held by the USA Unfair conditions(e.g. Ghana, Tanzania, Iraq) Sovereign immunity-little accountability Requires certain level of government to implement reforms-this is simply not in place Reforms too concentrated on GDP growth rather than quality of living of the people

The World Bank More on Trade Liberalisation (useful in general)-make sure you take into account the stage the economy is in when you impact these arguments(framing) Good stuff: Enables specialisation(comparative advantage) Lower prices for consumers(resources imported cheaper  lower costs  lower prices) Increased competition between firms  efficiency Enables economies of scale

The World Bank More on Trade Liberalisation (useful in general) Bad stuff: Structural unemployment short run(shift between industries). Hard for people to specialise in new industries. Environmental harm(if legislation if poor) Uncompetitive economies are at a disadvantage(protectionism required) Dependability of international markets  increased risk

The World Bank Failures: Brazil – road building project set a significant proportion of the Amazon on fire Latin American Crisis and default of Mexico(1982) East Timor Failed to relaunch education and medical sectors Urged country to save a large part of petroleum revenues Poverty rose significantly until the state decided to go against the Bank’s advice

The World Bank Successes: Rural water project in Kerala(south-west of India)  women don’t have to walk hours to get water. State has now dependable supply of running water. Diseaster management programs in Vietnam or Bangladesh

The World Bank Motions that have come up: THBT the IMF and the World Bank should not make debt relief for highly indebted poor countries conditional on trade liberalization THBT The World Bank and Other Bilateral Donors Should Tie Developmental Aid to Investment in Agriculture THW Substantially Reduce the IMF and World Bank Lending Programmes THBT The World Bank chairs should be selected on a rotational regional basis