Instruction
This scrapbook is a compilation of your learnings over 7 weeks of readings and discussion on the
Global Challenge of Prosperity. Every week you will need to submit a Question Quotation an Image,
or something Missing related to the weekly topical areas the night before the seminar. This can be
anything you feel encapsulates your learning: something you are unsure about, an idea that came to
you, something that allows you to connect the readings with a real-life situation, concerns you have
about a viewpoint that is missing. You have the luxury of making that decision amongst the four
options. Each quote, quotation, image, or missing item should be accompanied by a 150–200-word
piece (NO +/-10% RULE) reflecting how your selection links to the core concepts for that week. The
final submission will have 7 entries compiled into a book.
The grading will be based on completeness of scrapbook and timeliness of weekly submissions:
− Did you make an effort to think reflectively each week about the readings and plenary
sessions?
− Did you submit each week on time?
− Are there seven entries?
− Did you attempt to try each of the options (so not just images each week, but attempt the range of options)?
− Did you write a maximum 200-word statement for each week?
This is meant to get you to reflect on one key takeaway from the readings. It is flexible and meant to
be a short reflective exercise. You can write up to 200 words and less than 100 words.
Here is an example of something acceptable:
Assigned Readings:
-Achiume, Tendayi (2019) Migration As Decolonization. 71 Stanford Law Review
-Nutmeg’s Curse (chapters 15-16)
QQIM submission: Missing- “What I find missing from Achiume’s article is what happens to
countries that were not colonized? Should they still have this relationship? Ghosh writes about
migration in a similar idea with circular migration. What would it take to get to a globally accepted
practice of circular migration?”
This example is 47 words. And demonstrates that you have read both Ghosh and Achiume and
thought about how the authors have explained their ideas about migration.
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For this assignment, you are “ONLY” doing the week 5’s QQIM assignment.
The Core concept of the week is “GAME-CHANGERS IN THE PURSUIT OF PROSEPRITY I-Ageing and Prosperity”
The emergence and spread of the COVID-19 virus prove to be the ultimate ‘game changer’ globally,
as economies and borders closed and governments around the world scrambled to deal with the tri-
fold health, economic and social crises that accompanied its spread. Through the failure of public
health as a global public good, the virus poses a significant development challenge for all countries,
accentuating the case for a global, rather than international development paradigm (Oldekop et al. 2020).
Population ageing is an inevitable consequence of the declines in fertility and increases in longevity
that characterize the demographic transition and is usually associated with social and economic
development. This week we look at several dimensions of health as game changers in prosperity. We
examine the factors that contribute to these game changers and the (economic) rationale for
interventions based on market failures, with focus on public goods or large social externalities.
The core reading for this week is:
– The Routledge Handbook of Global Development Chapter 40: Health, illness, and development
– The Routledge Handbook of Global Development Chapter 48: Children, Youth and Development
And the readings for seminar are attached
– Rutagumirwa, Sylivia Karen, and Ajay Bailey. “It’s all about being a woman”: Intersections of multiple (dis) advantages experienced by older women in Tanzania.” Journal of aging studies 61 (2022): 101021.
– The Routledge Handbook of Global Development Chapter 49: Aging and Development
Background videos
– https://youtu.be/hJCr5WJapm8 cost of ageing
– https://youtu.be/5vIrL7fiNgw Ageing campaign
Do the readings first, and then in 150-200 words,,
Come up with a Question, or Quotation, or an Image, or something Missing (choose only one!) related to the weekly topical areas the night before the seminar. This can be anything you feel encapsulates your learning: something you are unsure about, an idea that came to you, something that allows you to connect the readings with a real-life situation, concerns you have about a viewpoint that is missing. You have the luxury of making that decision amongst the four options. Each quote, quotation, image, or missing item should be accompanied by a 150–200-word piece (NO +/-10% RULE) reflecting how your selection links to the core concepts for that week.
For this week, please choose “IMAGE” for QQIM Scrapbook.
– find a relevant image
– explain why the image is relavant/connected to the reading for this week’s seminar/core topic
