INTL-BUS-3780 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Sub-Saharan Africa, Maternal Death, Import Substitution Industrialization
Document Summary
80% of humanity lives on less than /day. 22000 children die each day due to poverty. 2011 world bank diferent income groups: 2. 5 bil people in low income countries (largest) mostly less developed countries. Gni/capita - /yr: 3 bil people in middle income countries (medium) Characterisics of emerging markets: economic circumstances, health & nutriion. Many people in less developed countries sufer from poor health due to malnutriion (disease and dirty water) Every 3 seconds someone is dying from lack of healthcare or food or combinaion of the two. Need to listen to****npr aricle diferent types of disease in africa and how it kills of so many people. High rates of populaion growth: the global ferility rate is currently 2. 7 children per woman. If the ferility rate of countries was to keep constant, the world populaion would hit 124 trillion alarming populaion number.
