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Video Resources
Building Social Business: Muhammad Yunus, 2011.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Dq4vj9arXk
Time 1:34: 21
Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus is a global leader in anti-poverty efforts and a pioneer of the use of micro-loans to provide credit to the poor. He delivers a Beatty Memorial Lecture at McGill.
Fazle Hasan Abed on Poverty Alleviation in Bangladesh: Lessons for Africa and Asia, 2012.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcAbK_d8ZfE
Time 56:59
Fazle Hasan Abed draws from his notable career to speak about success stories in development and what some countries in Africa and Asia can learn from these examples. Abed has received numerous national and international awards for his achievements in founding and leading BRAC, such as the Asia Foundation’s Chang-Lin Tien Distinguished Fellow Award and his recognition as one of Ashoka’s “global greats.”
Poverty Alleviation India—Programs and Policies, 2013.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZeSl_BVJMs
Time 13:48
This video consists explores the experience of economic development in India.
The Developmental State Experiment in Africa: The Experiences of Ghana and South Africa, 2013.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiN2xRZQBX0
Time 1:12:05
Using Ghana (considered to be a non-developmental state) and South Africa (considered to be an emerging developmental state) as case studies, this lecture examines the extent or the degree to which the two countries have met or achieved the key eight features of the developmental state. Some recommendations are also made with the aim of consolidating progress thus far and deepening or accelerating the process.
Thomas Friedman—The World is Flat. UChannel, 2005.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcK3b9qlBfk&feature=relmfu
Time 1:49:46
Thomas Friedman, New York Times columnist, speaks at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore.
Tyler Cowen: The Rise and Fall of the Chinese Economy, 2015.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZwEDa9TrfE
Time 12:24
This video explores the rise and fall of China’s economy.