POLI 3424 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Location, Location, Location, Malaria, Why Nations Fail
11 Nov 2020
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The challenges of natural resource abundance and scarcity. Only looking at economic growth and gdp - best predictor prosperity". Previously, we have looked at development (health, access to education, achieving full potential, etc. ) Transportation - they provide cheap transportation, ready access to transportation (markets, places that are potentially far away) Cheaper to transport something by ship rather than land. Within 100 km of the sea or access to the sea. Diseases - inhibiting ability to be productive, less able to work if you are sick. Measurement - climate regions (not just latitude) Desert - not as many problems with diseases, don"t have agricultural productivity. The area that is suffering from malaria gets smaller over time, which suggests that the productivity of the population has grown. Some of these factors change over time. Coastal provinces in china are more wealthy. Climate (for agriculture and diseases), access to sea productivity, transportation economic growth and gnp.
