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Giedre Steikunaite
Student (London, United Kingdom)

Currently an editorial intern at the New Internationalist magazine ("The people, the ideas, the action in the fight for global justice"), I'm studying journalism and contemporary history in London, UK. Freelancing for various publications, back in Lithuania I was a reporter for a current affairs weekly Panorama. Development, climate change, and social issues are my main topics of interest.

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Can you get out of debt? A game

Published 22nd April 2010 - 4 comments - 1239 views -

 

Life or Debt? This is a cartoon game printed in 1988 (so more than 20 years ago) in my beloved The New Internationalist. You are a finance minister of one of the Majority World countries, strongly willing to make life better for your people. What do you do? Which path would you take? Debt Highway, Export Drive or Unexplored Pass?

I tried all my computer-psychic abilities but couldn't make it big enough to read in this post. Therefore, a bigger image is here.

 

Continuing the debt issue, here is a trailer of The Debt of Dictators, a documentary about "whose debt is it, and who is going to pay it?":

 

 

 

Full version is available on DVD and Youtube.

 

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Life or Debt: Illustration by Clive Offley.

Reprinted by kind permission of New Internationalist. Copyright New Internationalist. www.newint.org.

Main picture: walknboston via flickr


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  • Ian Sullivan on 22nd April 2010:

    Thanks for this…..good to see different types of blogs on this site

  • Lara Smallman on 22nd April 2010:

    Thanks for posting this Giedre. I’d echo what Ian wrote - it’s great to see such a wide range of interpretations of and responses to the topic of development.

  • Giedre Steikunaite on 23rd April 2010:

    Thanks guys! I’m glad you find it interesting.

    20 years is such a recent past, but anyways the situation hasn’t really changed, now has it?

  • Maria Kuecken on 23rd April 2010:

    Hah, I love this. 
    I think the following decision tree is the more modern but assuredly less exciting version: http://rodrik.typepad.com/dani_rodriks_weblog/2007/11/doing-growth-di.html

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