POLI 227 Lecture Notes - Sarah Mclachlan, Hans Rosling, Sub-Saharan Africa
11 Mar 2014
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Issues regarding the nature of terminology we use, categorization, etc. Syllabus is intentionally vague in terms of timing in order to accommodate flexibility. No absolute schedule of what we will do on what day. Industrialized north account for 1 billion of 7 billion people worldwide. But they get about 80% of world resources annually. E. g. 40-1 difference between economic resources per person in canada and the economic resources per person in ethiopia. Ppp figures are adjusted for various standards of living (e. g. cost of food/housing) So, the average person in ethiopia is, in effect, surviving on 1/40 of the annual income of the average person in canada. Colonial era/industrial revolution changed main areas of economic and industrial development. We are at a point where we"re seeing a shift of economic power of historical proportions. We can compare gdp of nations to gdp of particular companies.
