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Questions About Development Is wanting to “develop” natural, universal? Does economic development lead other kinds of development? Does better health care make development a necessity? Does mass communication make development a necessity?
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More Questions Does more food? Does having more children? What about “tribes” that don’t know about, don’t want? Where are your countries on World Bank scale? Where are they on U.N. human development scale? Is there a correlation?
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How Does Development Happen? Exploitation of natural resources? Who benefits? Do local people share in profits? Who decides who benefits? Who adjudicates injustice? These are stories best told from the bottom up. What do the “little” local people think?
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Happening 2 International trade, investment Why would capital come to a country? Resources? Labor? “Do-gooder?” Does capital help local people? Do local people decide how it’s spent? Do local people get a cut? How is injustice adjudicated? Do locals think they’re getting raw deal?
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Happening 3 Do technologies, communication technologies affect development? How does technology interact with labor? With natural resources? Do indigenous people have anything to say about it? Can they say no? Do they want to?
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The Value-Added Concept Value-add processes to make something cheap worth more. Iron ore becomes iron, value added. Iron becomes a car, value added. Cheaper labor, more profit-value added. Concept of “import substitution.” Value-add is development? Is value-add a tradeoff for someone?
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Cheap Labor as Value-Add Fire the American iron workers, hire the Korean ironworkers. Cheaper iron, better value-add. What happens to the Americans? Fire the Koreans, hire the Chinese? Fire the Chinese, hire the Martians? Companies benefit; do workers? Do nations, in terms of development?
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Corporate Responsibility Do companies have responsibilities beyond profits, shareholders? What about laborers left behind? What about locals who don’t share in profits? What about environmental and other “externalities?” Who defines corporate responsibility?
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Development=Protectionism? As developing nations add more value, they compete with “developed” nations. Developed nations’ political systems react with “buy American” type stuff. As developing resources are plundered, Chavez types seize businesses. Are national governments screwing up global development?
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Government Roles Some “guide” development (China, Singapore) Some undevelop (Sudan, Zimbabwe) Some nationalize everything (Bolivia, Venezuela) Some let corporations run amok (U.S.A., much of Western Europe) Multinationals get leftovers—not effective so far: $100 billion!
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