POLI 227 Lecture Notes - World3, Tobacco Advertising, Economic Indicator
2 Feb 2013
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Canada enjoys one of the world"s highest standard of living (top 3) 1 billion of 7 billion are from the north. 1/7 of the north receive 4/5 of annual global resources. Ppp figures are adjusted for the cost of living in different countries ratios give some idea of the actual differences of resources available average person in. Ethiopia lives on 1/40th of annual income of average canadian. China and the brics are becoming much more important and standards of living are changing too, but at a much slower rate. Economies and large corporations compared iranian economy almost the size of. Non-state economic actors (i. e. multinational corporations) can be very powerful and the relative disadvantage of smaller developing countries are in terms of this relationship. Half the population of sub-saharan africa is living on less than 1. 25$ a day, but in just 7 years the proportion of kids going to primary school increased from to .
