GEOG 3050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: World Health Organization, Offshore Bank, Organized Crime
12 Feb 2013
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Regional overviews of africa, asia, and latin america. 1 billion people in all of africa. Young population (half of all africans are under 25 years) Relatively high birth rates (compared to europe and canada) Relatively high death rates (more to the south) Lower well being/income (range within the continent) Colonial languages (arabic, french, english, swahili, portuguese, spanish etc. ) Colonial legacies (problematic, conflicts between ethnic groups, between resources, religion etc. ) Primary commodities (agriculture, oil & gas: fishing, forestry etc. (resource extraction, high reliance of primary economic activities. Cotton, cocoa, mining (gold, diamonds, copper, oil: increasing reliance explain social context. Secondary sector (what you make from primary resources: industrial activity (15% of population relies on it, least industrialized continent compared to the rest of world. African union (shared political voice, sameness of colonial experience) Conflicts resulting in refugees (huge movements) and internally displaced people.
