Globalization – 5/27/20 (Gold)

Period 1 – Thurs 5/27

Today our IES Advisor Groups worked on their strategic plan, discussed trade negotiations, and formed trade alliances with other countries’ advisors. The IES paper was introduced and groups were encouraged to split up their assignments for the paper and summit preparation. There will be two opportunities to earn pre-summit points with a flag quiz and a trade quiz. Each group will pick two members (one for each quiz) to represent the group.

Later, we discussed globalization and its impact on China and India. We watched a video on a factory in Fuzhou, China where teenage girls live and sew Mardi Gras beads together.

Economy in Transition – 5/26/2010 (Blue)

Periods 2 & 6 – Wed 5/26

Today our IES Advisor Groups worked on their strategic plan, discussed trade negotiations, and formed trade alliances with other countries’ advisors. The IES paper was introduced and groups were encouraged to split up their assignments for the paper and summit preparation. There will be two opportunities to earn pre-summit points with a flag quiz and a trade quiz. Each group will pick two members (one for each quiz) to represent the group.

Later, we examined India’s economic transition. We watched a video that describes how India entrepreneurs and innovators are fueling India’s growth into an economic power. A reflection for the two videos (on China & India) was assigned.

Economy in Transition – 5/25/2010 (Gold)

Period 1 – Tues. 5/25

Today our IES Advisor Groups worked on their strategic plan, discussed trade negotiations, and formed trade alliances with other countries’ advisors.

Later, we examined India’s economic transition. We watched a video that describes how India entrepreneurs and innovators are fueling India’s growth into an economic power. A reflection for the two videos (on China & India) was assigned.

Economy in Transition – 5/24/2010 (Blue)

Periods 2 & 6 – Mon 5/24

Today our IES Advisor Groups worked on their strategic plan, discussed trade negotiations, and formed trade alliances with other countries’ advisors.

Later, we compared China’s economic transition with Russia’s transition. We watched a video that describes how Chinese entrepreneurs and innovators are helping to make China into an economic powerhouse.

Economy in Transition – 5/21/2010 (Gold)

Period 1 – Fri 5/21

Today our IES Advisor Groups worked on their strategic plan for their country. Next week we will focus on trade talks and trade alliances.

Later, we compared China’s economic transition with Russia’s transition. We watched a video that describes how Chinese entrepreneurs and innovators are helping to make China into an economic powerhouse.

Barriers to Growth: Labor 5/20/2010 (Blue)

Periods 2 & 6 – Thurs 5/20

Today our IES Advisor Groups worked on their strategic plan for their country. Next week we will focus on trade talks and trade alliances.

We continued our investigation of barriers to economic growth with a look at direct foreign investments, multinationals, and offshoring as a means to increase capital investment in a country. We watched a video on a couple of American entrepreneurs who decided to start up an IT business in India.

Barriers to Growth: Labor 5/19/2010 (Gold)

Period 1 – Wed 5/19

Today our IES Advisor Groups worked on world governance indicators, investments, and corruption in government. We will be starting our strategic planning for our countries during our next class.

We continued our investigation of barriers to economic growth with a debriefing of the situation in Ghana and a short discussion on the privatization of government services as a solution to reduce government spending. We also began to look at direct foreign investments, multinationals, and offshoring as a means to increase capital investment in a country. We watched a video on a couple of American entrepreneurs who decided to start up an IT business in India.

Barriers to Growth: Capital 5/18/2010 (Blue)

Periods 2 & 6 – Tues 5/18

IES advisors groups worked on world governance indicator data (pp26-30).

We discussed ways that countries could save to raise money needed to make capital investments. We looked at borrowing from the World Bank and attracting multinationals to a country. We examined the impact of debt on developing countries and IMF and World Bank solutions to get out of debt. We watch a video looking at IMF and World Bank policies and its impact on the country of Ghana. After the video we looked at privatization of basic government services as a way to cut government spending and reduce the possibility of deficit spending by government.

Barriers to Growth: Capital 5/17/2010 (Gold)

Period 1 – Mon 5/17

The internaional economic summit”s project goals were introduced and discussed today. We work in our Economic Advisors Groups exchanging information and working on pagers 21-23 of our workbooks. After working in our groups we took notes on the barriers to economic growth to begin our analysis of the data we have been collecting in our workbooks. We watch a video looking at IMF and World Bank policies and its impact on the country of Ghana.

Barriers to Growth: Capital 5/14/2010 (Blue)

Period 2 – Fri 5/14

The internaional economic summit”s project goals were introduced and discussed today. We work in our Economic Advisors Groups exchanging information and working on pagers 21-23 of our workbooks. After working in our groups we took notes on the barriers to economic growth to begin our analysis of the data we have been collecting in our workbooks.

Period 6 – Fri 5/14

We work in our Economic Advisors Groups exchanging information and working on pagers 21-23 of our workbooks. After working in our groups we took notes on the barriers to economic growth to begin our analysis of the data we have been collecting in our workbooks.

Later, we continued with barriers to economic growth by examining another aspect of political conditions concerning refugees and internally displaced peersons or IDPs.  We watched another program produced by Sorius Samura as he joined a refugee family from Sudan escaping the situation in Darfur by relocating to one of the refugee camps in the country of Chad. A reflection was assigned on how traditions, social conditions, and political conditions contribute to the feeling of hopelessness by the affected people.