SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Dependency Theory, Deindustrialization, Four Asian Tigers

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Halyna Mokrushyna

Document Summary

Human development index: 1990: new three criteria are added to gni by the un development programme to measure the level of development in a country: Average increase: about 1/3 in the past three decades and is now more than. In sub-saharan africa estimated life expectancy has dropped significantly, largely because of hiv/aids. More than 50,000 women still die each year in pregnancy and childbirth. Low-income countries have higher rates of illness and disease, and they lack adequate healthcare facilities. Nearly one billion people suffer from chronic malnutrition and more than nine million people die each year from hunger-related causes: education. Literacy is an important result of education, and the adult literacy rate in low- income countries is much lower than that of the high-income. Rates of literacy have risen from 73 percent to 84, and the average number of years of schooling has gone up by two years.