SOCI 1127 Lecture Notes - Gross Domestic Product, Walt Whitman Rostow
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Gdp (gross domestic product) [or gni or similar] Basically total dollar amount of goods and services produce in a year. According to the un food and agriculture organization. 1. 02 billion pope, do not have enough to eat - more then the populations of usa, 25000 people ( adults and children) die everyday from hunger and related causes. The number of undernourished people in the world increased by 75 million in 2007 and. 40 million in 2008, largely due to higher food prices. 907 million people in developing countries alone are hungry. More than 60 percent of chronically hungry people are women. 65 percent of the worlds hungry live in only 7 countries: india, china, the democratic. Richest 2% owned more than half of global wealth. One third of total wealth owned in north ameecia. Assets of 61% pales one among richest 10% Amount of global aid from developed to developing countries, 2008: billion.
