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1. The document discusses various topics related to economic development around the world, including differences in connectivity, dollarization in El Salvador, commodity chains, and barriers to development such as low social welfare, political instability, and foreign debt. 2. It provides examples of how governments can influence development through policies around markets, commodities, laws, trade, and investment, and how they have created "islands of development" through targeted infrastructure projects. 3. Nongovernmental organizations are also discussed as entities that operate independently to promote development, often through microcredit programs.
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- 1. Differences in Communications Connectivity Around the World
- 2. Dollarization – Abandoning the local currency of a country and adopting the dollar as the local currency. El Salvador went through dollarization in 2001
- 3. Commodity Chain Series of links connecting the many places of production and distribution and resulting in a commodity that is then exchanged on the world market. Dolomite stone from Jerusalem covers a fireplace in Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts.
- 4. Barriers to Economic Development • Low Levels of Social Welfare – Trafficking-bullied into poor working conditions – High birth rates, Low life expectancy, large number of dependents – Lack of proper health care – Poor water supply & sanitation – Widespread Disease vectored diseases-spread by a host – Malaria-kills 150,000 children each month • Political Instability-military dictatorships, corruption, revolution • Foreign Debt – World Bank or International Monetary Fund – Structural adjustment loans-economic reform required
- 5. Foreign Debt Obligations Total interest payments compared to the export of goods and services.
- 6. Foreign Debt Obligations Foreign Debt and Economic Collapse in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2001
- 7. Widespread Disease • Malaria kills 150,000 children in the global periphery each month. Tamolo, India This baby sleeps under a mosquito net distributed to villagers by UNICEF workers.
- 8. Global Distribution of Malaria Transmission Risk
- 9. Areas Threatened by Desertification
- 10. How Government Policies Affect Development • Governments – get involved in world markets – price commodities – affect whether core processes produce wealth – shape laws to affect production – enter international organizations that affect trade – focus foreign investment in certain places – support large-scale projects
- 12. Governments & Corporations can create Islands of Development Places within a region or country where foreign investment, jobs , and infrastructure are concentrated.
- 13. Africa Map • Be able to locate major countries: such as-South Africa, Nigeria, Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia, R wanda, Somalia and so forth
- 14. Government-created Island of Development Malaysian government built a new, ultramodern capital at Putrjaya to symbolize the country’s rapid economic growth.
- 15. Corporate-created Island of Development The global oil industry has created the entire city of Port Gentile, Gabon to extract Gabon’s oil resources.
- 16. Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs) entities that operate independent of state and local governments, typically, NGOs are non-profit organizations. Each NGO has its own focus/set of goals. Microcredit program: loans given to poor people, particularly women, to encourage development of small businesses.
- 17. The End