The International Monetary Fun (Monopoly Version)
This game will be a modofied version of monopoly. However it will be about a different economy issue that we have today because of capitalism. The World Trade Organization created the International Monetary Fund years after countries were going decolonization. These countries are currently know as "Third World", and are horribly in dept. After decolonization countries knew that they could not survive on their own economy and products. In order to get their economy started they signed treaties with the IMF in order to gain money. The IMF then placed SAP's on these countries that make the money almost impossible to pay off. Countries are currently horribly in dept, and this game will allow people to understand how these countries are suffering and how the IMF needs different policies. It is also evident in the game that the IMF should allow these developing countries to rely on their own economy and products.
Research: SAPs encourage countries to focus on the production and export of primary commodities such as cocoa and coffee to earn foreign exchange. But these commodities have notoriously erratic prices subject to the whims of global markets which can depress prices just when countries have invested in these so-called 'cash crops'.
By devaluing the currency and simultaneously removing price controls, the immediate effect of a SAP is generally to hike prices up three or four times, increasing poverty to such an extent that riots are a frequent result.
The term "Structural Adjustment Program" has gained such a negative connotation that the World Bank and IMF launched a new initiative, the Poverty Reduction Strategy Initiative, and makes countries develop Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP). While the name has changed, with PRSPs, the World Bank is still forcing countries to adopt the same types of policies as SAPs.
(http://www.whirledbank.org/development/sap.html)
Designer: Players play as the IMF
Players go around the board trying to implement saps on third world countries
They put their company's and buisness into these countries
Lower down the capital of these countries
cut down education and also take needs from the people in these developing countries
IMF makes children and people work in factories for very little money.
Comments
This game didn't really make
This game didn't really make me think about third world contries. All it made me want to do was dictate all the countries. One thing that I saw was missing was that on the baord there was a box to put cards on, but there was NO Cards. It was onyl fun beacuse, my group started using the rubber bands into rubber band guns.
~Katherine :]
This game wasn't really
This game wasn't really about third world countries and the issues the only thing that connected to the issue was that you wrote names of countries on the bored. Also in the rules you didn't write what worth and rent means on your board, so I was confused because I never played monopoly before so I didn't really know what to do. Also like Katherine said on the board there was a box that said cards but there was no cards.
(p.s haha Katherine :) )
This game that you created
This game that you created was the game I played in technology a few days ago. It was really fun and I enjoyed playing it with my friends. What made it interesting was that my friends and I were trying to buy all the countries we were related to or had some kind of connection to. I really do have to admit that this game was entertaining. This game however did not really direct me to thinking about third world countries but more into buying the countries that I had a connection to or the countries that have funny sounding names. Also there was a place for cards, yet my group didn't find any. If you consider reconstructing this game you might want to paste the board on something like cardboard. The pieces should also be heavier because they kept blowing away which made the attention of my group turn away from the game.
Overall, I really thought that your game was fun to play, but it didn't really teach me anything. My group was really absorbed into the game at one point and we were a bit loud while playing. But again, this game didn't teach me much at all.
This game did not teach me
This game did not teach me anything. I just learned that you can buy third world countries. The directions were also unclear.I totally agree with katherine. This was fun but also boring. This was obviously not put together correctly because there was a space that said cards and there were no cards. There were also some countries that you couldn't buy. I hink this was a bad game. I f i was going to rate it 1-10 it would be a 3.
I played this game in
I played this game in technology the other day and it didn't really make any sense. The game didn't really teach me about third world countries and it was boring. The board was very plain. Even though it was another version of monopoly, I thought it was way different. Usually with monopoly, it handles large amonts of money and in this game, it didn't. Also in Monopoly it has cards that you read. Though there are many versions of Monopoly, I didn't see any version that matched yours.
I actually thought this
I actually thought this game was fun, and the procedure was pretty well written. However, I see you were attempting to relate IMF monopoly to economic issues in our society today. I felt there wasn't a good link to that. In your game, you could have been more creative, instead of simply having countries as the the spaces, you could have written economic issues in those spaces, that way the game player would face conflict and there would be more learning expeirience through out the game.
At 1st I didn't think I
At 1st I didn't think I would like the game, but after a while, me and my friends got so in2 the game, we started screaming. I remember that every1 was fighting 4 Ecuador. When 1 of my friends bought it, my group yelled "NO!" and when we looked up, every1 in the class was staring at us weird. The point that u were trying to make about 3rd world countries didn't really show in the game and also the instructions weren't clear if someone had never played Monopoly b4. There was a place on the board that said "CARDS" but there were none and also it didn't explain what the rectangular pieces of construction paper were 4. But we figured it all out and ended up having a blast. All of us really wanna play it again. =P