2.  Questions or comments?  After watching this film, why do you think that Chino, Rosa, and Anthony are still living in extreme poverty? What do you think are some of the things holding them back?  Need-based development focuses on helping people secure immediate needs like food, clothing, and shelter. Asset-based development tries to help people gain the skills, education, and resources to bring themselves out of poverty. Which type of development do you believe is more effective overall and why?

3.  Why should MDCs care if LDCs improve their economic development?

4.  Popular in early 20 th century  Example: India  Pushes LDCs to provide for their own people, independent of foreign economies  Rural areas must develop along with urban areas, and poverty must be reduced across the entire country  Favors a closed economic state with heavy import tariffs to impede foreign competition  Critics say the lack of foreign competition hinders efficiency and innovation

5.  Promoted by Rostow in the 1960s  Pushes LDCs to identify its unique economic assets  Develop just those distinctive local industries  Direct investment toward that industry  Will get a comparative advantage over other countries in producing that particular good or service  Examples: Japan: comparative advantage in electronics Four “Asian Tigers” South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan Focus on manufactured goods, esp. electronics Arabian Peninsula states Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, UAE Petroleum  Critics say increases dependence on MDCs

6.  A type of foreign direct investment (FDI)  IMF and World Bank provide loans to LDCs with strings attached  Strings = LDCs must make certain economic changes in order to use the loan  Spend what it can afford  Invest more on health & education, less on military  Increase privatization E.g., African countries required to sell water systems to private companies Water used to be free when operated by government

7.  Organizations run by charities and private organizations  Provide supplies, resources, and money to local businesses and causes that promote development  Red Cross  Doctors Without Borders  Greenpeace  Grameen 

8.  Providing loans and financial services to people and small businesses in LDCs who wouldn’t be able to get them from commercial banks  Grameen Bank, Bangladesh  Founder won Nobel Peace Prize, 2006  Why focus on women? Why focus on women?