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MBA 539 / OB 551 Third World Development Course Articles   Class 1. Introduction and Course Overview Class 2. The Spiritual and the Temporal Class 3. Global Issues Class 4. The Modernization Perspective Class 5. Unintended Consequences of Modernization Class 6. The Dependency Perspective Class 7. Dependency Continued Class 8. Dependency and Multinational Corporations Class 9. The World System Perspective Class 10. Neo-Modernist Policy and the East Asian Model of a Command Economy Class 11. Women's Empowerment: The Informal Economy and NGOs Class 12. Microenterprise Class 13. Women, Gender and Microenterprise Continued. Class 14. Gender, Equity, and Microenterprise Continued Class 15. The Basic Needs Approach: Humanitarianism Class 16. The Basic Needs Approach Continued Class 17. Rural Development and Small-Scale Agriculture Two Ears of Corn (smaller file, use rotate page button in Acrobat Reader) Two Ears of Corn (larger file, all pages in portrait orientation) Class 18. Grassroots Community Organizing and Confrontation Tools Class 19. Participatory Problem-Solving Class 20. Ecology and Development Buddhism and Environmentalism Class 21. Environmental Tactics Class 22. Educational Strategies, Learning and Literacy Class 23. Education and Literacy Continued Class 24. Economics and Social Justice Class 25. Economic Democracy (Book chapters 1-3) Class 26. Economic Democracy (Book chapters 4-6) Class 27. Economic Democracy (Book chapters 7-9) Class 28. Class Wrap-up: A Call to Action!