1. Why do you think levels of inequality lead to lower rates of growth and development?
2. What role do you think international trade and foreign investment play in solving some of the identified in the big push model? In the O-Ring Model? What limitations to your argument can you think of?
3. In what ways do you think these contemporary models shed light on the following problems that confront developing countries today? Child Labor, poor health & nutrition, land reform and environmental degradation.
4. Why do you think the government sometimes is a part of the coordination failure rather than the solution?