and traveled through india bangladesh sri lanka thailand indonesia the philippines what did that time teach you. you know it's very interesting i of course went into international development with a passion to end global poverty actually coming from a very conservative perspective recognizing that poverty was created was the fuelling these communist revolutions that threaten our american way of life and so i was operating on the assumption that bringing american business secrets to the rest of the world would be the answer to ending poverty but i gradually began to realize that there was something terribly wrong with the development models that we were bringing to these countries that first began to strike me when i realized that the policies being advocated particularly by the world bank and the i.m.f. were encouraging countries to. invite foreign investment which basically is about selling off more of your economic productive capacity and resources to foreign corporations and also urging them to gear their economies to export. and you know you asked these kind of naive questions you