GEOG 1200 Lecture Notes - Neocolonialism, Conference And Resort Hotels, Economic Globalization
30 Oct 2013
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Case study: las vegas: a synthetic place, has all place marketing things, city makes strong connection between economics and culture, marketing fantasies, wasn"t always like this. Used to be centre for gambling: in 1990"s, it underwent transformation (place making and marketing) to megaresort. Before 1945 causes of poverty assumptions the main assumption was that poor countries were undeveloped because of there location and that among the poor countries poverty was unavoidable and unresolvable. There were internal causes that lead to this underdevelopment. Countries could be doomed to be poor because they lacked natural resources. Poverty unavoidable because of a high population growth rate. Low level of education, societies reluctant to change. Economic factors: low wages, low productivity, small markets for products produced in poor countries, they have a large informal sector (under ground economy, people don"t report their pay to the government) Uneven distribution of resources, resources controlled by the elite. Geographic and demographic factors do not cause underdevelopment.
