1) You collaborated in groups of three or four to create a single Google Doc to answer the EQ:
- What are the main similarities and difference between how various theories of wealth accumulation explain the North-South gap?
You were to refer to your outlines for for Ch. 12, particularly pp. 440-43; 449-454 and required to:
- Include sections that explain economic liberalism, world system theory, and dependency theory
- Have a section that also directly answers the EQ
- Include relevant images
2) We then watched the video, Poor Us: An Animated History--Why Poverty? You were expected to take notes and use them to complete the Why Poverty Responses Questions on Google Drive.
3) For homework, you need to work in your group to complete the collaborative Google Doc. You need to add a section arguing as to which theory (or theories) the video implicitly employs to explain the causes of wealth accumulation and poverty.
4) When your Google Doc is complete, edited, and awesome, please individually transfer it to your blog as a blog post.
On Friday, we will begin to examine development strategies various countries have attempted to escape poverty and accumulate wealth. We will learn which strategies tend to be successful and under which conditions, which do not, and ultimately why a country like Taiwan was able to escape poverty, develop high-tech industries, and provide one of the best health care systems on earth.