PLCP 3012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Coltan, Arab Spring
10 Dec 2018
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7 billion people; about half is in the developing world. Demographic trends: population growth has more or less stopped (or has slowed significantly) in industrialized nations. in developing world, population growth is accelerating. In order to survive in the future, important to understand. What happens in the developing world has profound consequences in the. Libya example (libya is still in turmoil post arab spring) Issues of resources there has been an ongoing war. (for reading on this, if you"re curious: https://www. theatlantic. com/international/archive/2011/07/is-your-c ell-phone-fueling-civil-war-in-congo/241663/ . 8 people having as much as the poorest 3. 5 billion. Third world - term invented in the 1950s during the cold war.
