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Aid for Africa? No Thanks, TED Global, 2007.
https://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_mwenda_aid_for_africa_no_thanks?language=en
Time 14:21
Journalist Andrew Mwenda asks us to reframe the "African question" -- to look beyond the media's stories of poverty, civil war, and helplessness and see the opportunities for creating wealth and happiness throughout the continent.
Carol Black. Schooling the World: The White Man’s Last Burden. Lost People Films, 2010.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ho3bT0eYZo
Time: 1:04
Schooling the World explores the role played by modern education in the destruction of the world’s last sustainable Indigenous cultures. The film examines the hidden assumption of cultural superiority behind education aid projects, which overtly aim to help children “escape to a better life.”
Conversation Series: Arturo Escobar. XRoads conference, 2008.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2I1GRrQZKg
Time 9:54
This is a video of the keynote lecture given by distinguished Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Arturo Escobar, at the 2008 XRoads conference at the University of West-Indies, Kingston, Jamaica.
Conversations with History: David Harvey. UC Television, 2004.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02eskyHJY_4
Time 54:00
Distinguished geographer David Harvey joins host Harry Kreisler for a discussion of how the analytic tools of geography and Marxism can contribute to our understanding of the new imperialism.
Dambisa Moyo talks about Dead Aid on TEDx Brussels, 2009.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QjiiM4jhbk
Time 17:47
Dambiso Moyo argues that foreign aid may actually be hurting African countries more than helping them.
Gustavo Esteva: Challenging the Institutional Production of Truth. ISEC Economics of Happiness Conference, 2012.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN3iB5j8Gj4
Time 14:44
Gustavo Esteva is the co-founder of several Mexican, Latin American, and international NGOs, and the recipient of Mexico’s National Prize of Political Economy. He is active in Zapatismo, a movement for protecting the rights of Indigenous peoples.
Let my dataset change your mindset, TED, 2009.
https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_let_my_dataset_change_your_mindset?language=en
Time 19:40
Talking at the US State Department, Hans Rosling uses his fascinating data-bubble software to burst myths about the developing world.
Muhammed Yunus: Microcredit and Social Business for a Poverty-Free World. IDRC Webcast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j57X3idgICU
Time 1:32:28
Microcredit pioneer Muhammad Yunus founded the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh more than 25 years ago. Since then, millions of rural poor—mostly women—have received small loans for self-employment projects that have helped lift their families out of poverty. The bank’s model has been replicated in more than 100 countries, and microlending has become an important tool in the fight against global poverty. Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) has worked with Yunus and the Grameen Bank on a number of initiatives linking the use of information and communication technologies to poverty reduction in rural Bangladesh.
Stuart Hall: Race, The Floating Signifier. Challenging Media, 1997.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMo2uiRAf30
Time 5:00
British Cultural Studies theorist Stuart Hall discusses the cultural production and reproduction of race relations.
Webinar: Will the Covid-19 pandemic reshape the future of international development cooperation? (2020)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qaxcwPuWLM
Time 1:53:06
When the Covid-19 pandemic first broke out in China, the international community actively provided emergency assistance to China. With the global outbreak of the pandemic, a few developed countries have become epidemic centers of the disease and received emergency aid from developing countries. This webinar explores the relationship between countries and the way people look at international cooperation will also change.
Why I left international development, 2018.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q04eJwtetmU
Time 6:28
This short and very honest video gives a first-person account of some of the human and ethical issues with the realities of international development.