POSC311 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Atlantic Slave Trade, Primordialism, Sub-Saharan Africa

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POSC311
• Professor: Smythe Dennis

Document Summary

Different terminology used to refer to the developing world. The third world : this term is outdated and generally not used since it is left over from the cold war era, basically used to define everyone that wasn"t an ally to the us or. Moreso core countries like europe, usa, japan, canada, nz, australia, etc. There really is no catch all definition. Broadly defined: a large portion of the population has issues getting housing, water, food, security, healthcare, education, etc. of a country on a whole. Places without or lacking some of these areas of development . Indicators related to development (economic, social, political) and basic characteristics of these. Economic characteristics: high in poverty and low per capita gdp. Gdp = the economic output of a country in a year. So per capita means how much a person outputs for the country in a year. Below per capita gdp ,000 is considered low.