STHM 1311 Lecture 1: Class Notes January 25 2016
6 Apr 2016
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Understand the (potential) impact of current events on the economy in general and tourism in particular. Conflict over the crimea and eastern ukraine. Impact of a new philadelphia casino on existing pa casinos and. Looks at birthrate (# of babies per woman and income by religion. Divides countries into three groups: eastern religions, islam, and. Christianity if 50% or more in a country belong to that religion. 50 years ago both islam and christianity represented by both (high birth and poor) and (low birth and rich); all eastern religion countries except japan were in the (high birth and poor) category. Since then-drop in number of children per woman across all three religion groups. Countries, no matter what the majority religion, are converging on the two kids per woman model (current world average, 2. 4) Curbing child mortality lowers birth rates regardless of religion. 2 billion children today; 2 billion children in 2100!
