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Simulating Poverty and Inequality Dynamics in Developing Countries
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Ansoms, An; Geenen, Sara – Simulation & Gaming, 2012
This article considers how the simulation game of DEVELOPMENT MONOPOLY provides insight into poverty and inequality dynamics in a development context. It first discusses how the game is rooted in theoretical and conceptual frameworks on poverty and inequality. Subsequently, it reflects on selected playing experiences, with special focus on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Games, Simulation, College Instruction
Immiserizing Growth as Seen by Bhagwati, Samuelson, and Others
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Pryor, Frederic L. – Journal of Economic Education, 2007
Immiserizing growth is a long-term phenomenon that occurs when the gain in a country's social welfare arising from economic growth is more than offset by the loss in such welfare associated with an adverse shift in the terms of trade. In one case explored many years ago by Jagdish Bhagwati, immiserizing growth occurs in a developing nation that…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Developing Nations, Social Environment, Developed Nations
DEVELOPMENT MONOPOLY: A Simulation Game on Poverty and Inequality
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Ansoms, An; Geenen, Sara – Simulation & Gaming, 2012
DEVELOPMENT MONOPOLY is a simulation game that allows players to experience how power relations influence the agency of different socioeconomic groups, and how this can induce poverty and inequality. Players alter the original rules of the MONOPOLY board game so that they more accurately reflect social stratification and inequalities in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Games, Simulation, College Instruction
Que La Tortilla Se Vuelvai A History of U.S. Agribusiness Companies in Mexico. (May the Tortilla Return! A History of U.S. Agribusiness Companies in Mexico.)
Murdy, Jack – Farmworker Journal, 1978
There is a direct link, today and historically, between Mexico's underdevelopment and maldistribution of wealth, and U.S. domination of Mexico's economy, including the current penetration by U.S. transnationals. Activity in the food production and processing industries is just one facet of the total picture, but one of the most important.…
Descriptors: Agribusiness, Developing Nations, Economic Development, Economic Progress
Social Studies, Grade 12. Economics. Course of Study and Related Learning Activities. Preliminary Materials.
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New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Bureau of Curriculum Development. – 1970
This economic course of study for twelfth grade presents an extensive variety of teaching/learning activities. Many of the readings, pictures, charts, cartoons, and tables are selected from current and authoritative sources, such as government reports and newspapers. These items are used as a basis for student questions and a variety of student…
Descriptors: Business Cycles, Developing Nations, Discovery Learning, Economic Progress
Scanning Our Future. A Report from the NGO Forum on the World Economic Order in Support of the Seventh Special Session of the UN General Assembly on Development and International Economic Cooperation (September 1-12, 1975).
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Archer, Angus, Ed. – 1976
This report of the Seventh Special Session at the Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) presents an account of the Forum on World Economic Order. Its purpose is to gain public awareness of the issues debated. The core of this report is the unique exchange of over 50 opinions which provide a compendium of ideas and judgments in the…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Developing Nations, Economic Climate, Economic Development