How did the development gap grow?

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How did the development gap grow?

• To look at why the gap between rich and poor
  countries is one of the worlds biggest problems.

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Take a look at???

• Starter - Look at the cartoons and captions.
• There are three main reasons to explain the gap
  between the rich and poor countries.
• 1 Historical reasons
• 2 Environmental reasons
• 3 Socio-economic reasons.
• For each reason think of your own sentence to
  briefly explain that reason. (Hint look at the
  sentence under the reason)

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Things to do!

• Complete your own sentences to explain each
  reason. - QUICKLY
• Like this

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Do you have a flag?

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vUTduy7Qkvk8

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For resources?....noooo..really?

• 1 min clip.

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http//www.youtube.com/movie?vpktOXJr1vOQobav1
efeaturemv_sr

• Lets watch this clip above and the one below to
  gain an understanding to the history of
  Development.
• http//www.globalissues.org/video/778/luckiest-nut
  -in-the-world

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Time line

• Key words
• Empires
• UK, France, Spain
• be friendly, give stuff, spot tribal leader,
  bribe, fear through the army
• Leave south in debt
• laws

• Key words
• USA grows, resources, under populated
• Fall of empires WW2
• USA world friend
• Lend be friendly, create employment, set
  prices, countries compete.
• Trade regulations

1945-80
1990-2011
1600-1900
1900-45
1980-90
2011-50???

• Key words
• Trade liberalisation
• Privatisation
• Government sell resources to private companies,
  why?????

• Key words
• North uses debt repayments to help set subsidies
  for own companies in their countries.
• North encouragement of individual debt.

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Quiz time!!

1. Which four countries were the major players in
   trying to dominate the world???
2. Explain how the non native population first began
   trading?
3. What were the two main barriers to early trading?
4. What pressures were put upon non native countries
   that changed the relationship with the indigenous
   people?
5. How did the non native now insist on trade and
   keep the locals in line?
6. What types of goods were traded?
7. Name 3 physical geography features and 3 human
   geography features that are negative for
   trading?
8. How did the empires fall?
9. With Liberation from the non natives came
   problemswhat were they?
10. At the start of the 1900s a country began to
    rise globally, who were they and name the
    sequence of events that led to their rise.
11. After WW2 America began to influence a lot of the
    world in an intelligent way how did they do that?
12. How does Trade Liberlisation/ Cash crops work?

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Quiz answers

1. Portugal, Spain France and England
2. Smile, good and resources (spices, Tea, Wood,
   Crops, gold)
3. Distance (sailing crop harvest/mining time)
   language (hence schools were built)
4. Supply and demand from Europeans and the
   Americas. Threat of job loss for Captains and
   Admirals from Kings, Queens Government
   changed their attitudes and put pressures on the
   locals.
5. Bribe, lands, title for increased production, or
   threats (individual, family), fear, betrayal
   (tribe rivalries) replacing tribal leaders,
   torture (usually public) banishment or execution.
   
6. Herbs, Iornore, Gold, Sliver, Ivory, Timber,
   Crops (sugar cane) People (Slavery), Tea,
   Diamonds.
7. 3 physical weather storms, snow. Mountains,
   crop growth and harvest times.. Human language,
   culture, religions, Racism time
8. Hard work to get to the top, Fall Political
   unrest in colonised and empire countries.
   Inequalities, outsourcing the primary and
   secondary sectors cause extraction of wealth.
9. Inheritance of previous CONTRACTED empire debt,
   limited business and finance experience. Limited
   knowledge of political structure and management
   of people. Re invite old empire countries back to
   help under new individual/company contracts.
10. USA Cotton production, Gold rush and oil
    exports, save the money and reinvest in primary,
    secondary and tertiary sections. Export of
    inventions, car, oil refinery technologies. Sales
    for pre and post WW2.
11. Lend money to countries after WW2 as America is
    the worlds friend in Development contracts
    (agriculture Industries technologies) set up
    more international schools with the brightest
    getting scholarships to USA and jobs back in
    their own countries upon graduation to implement
    American Ideologies. Hollywood films to create
    the American dream desire and understand
    American English.

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Date 1600s 1840s 1930-1945 1945-80 1990s- NOW
What we have Empires Trade Depts being friendly, tribes USA resources oil,farm,weapons WW2   USA Vs. Economic and Psycologic Personal Depts
Additional Info  Europe went to Africa. Made a contract with the locals Europeans acted Friendly and gave them goods. (treated them well) ?  Created a law to make people work  and if not followed, the leader may be publicly humiliated The Europeans taxed them. USA was developing before WW2 ?  Rich in natural resources (new land) and have never been in many wars due to the geological location. (surrounded by other countries) USA supplied Europe  with resources (Weapons, Food, Shelter, etc...) ? Europe was now in dept to the US high interest British gives back countries and their independence. USA comes to help LEDCs (example places in Africa) by offering jobs, money, education ? Gave them money to pay back the debt they owe to Europe. Made countries compete by producing goods at the same price, prices were lowered (supply and demand) credit cards and house ownerships introduced to MEDCs ? high interest in debt ? This is based on what the US did to counties on the past (governments into debt)
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Create your own venn diagam for your country

• Social-economical
• Environmental
• Historical

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Your Turn.

• Create a 5 min role play highlighting the miain
  information on How development grew!

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Lets see the history

• http//www.youtube.com/movie?vpktOXJr1vOQobav1e
  featuremv_sr
• Use the writing frame with questions on
  development for the video clip (remember any clip
  can have bias, pull out the correlationsif any).

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2012, have thinks balanced out?
http//www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15748696