- Having absorbed both arguments, how do you feel about the prospects of doing business at the "bottom of the pyramid"? Are the business opportunities there real, or a mirage? Be sure to draw on evidence from the reading in your response.
- Is doing business in these places helping the world's poorest people, or is it exploitation?
- How should we, in the developed world, engage with those in the least developed places? How do our actions here in the U.S. affect the world's poorest people directly and indirectly?
- How should we think about international "development" generally? Clearly there are real and urgent problems facing the world's poorest people—but what is the right approach to solve them? Thinking about Ishmael might help here.
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