Developing World Section Quiz Handout Pre-Class Developing World Section Quiz Handout

The Developing World

Use pages 37-42

New Trade Patterns Developing nations SELL: cash crops, raw materials, mineral resources Imperialist nations (Industrial): import (BUY) raw materials from developing countries and sold manufactured goods back = economic dependence

New Trade Patterns Developing nations export cash crops and import manufactured goods After Independence Problems: Still ties to former ruler, single crop economy dependent on imported manufactured goods because not a modern economy

Goals of Modernization: political stability economic diversity = agriculture & industry Tariff: tax on imported goods Privatization: selling state owned industry to individuals Education and training Improve Services infrastructure: public services or systems Modernization: Changes in a nation that enable it to set up a stable government and produce a high level of goods and services – to improve standard of living

Debt Crisis: less developed countries borrowed money to modernize and can’t pay it back

Problems of Developing Nations: population explosion causes urbanization – high population density Political Instability Civil unrest, dictators, artificial country boarders Strains on the Government cultural change gap between modernized and developing countries

Artificial Boundaries

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Village of 100 If we could reduce the world's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all existing human ratios remaining the same, the demographics would look something like this: Prediction Handout

Village of 100 Gender Age Geography 50 would be female 50 would be male Age 26 would be 0-14 66 would be 15-64 8 would be 65 and older Geography 60 would be from Asia 15 would be from Africa 11 would be from Europe 9 would be from Latin America & the Caribbean 5 would be from North America

Village of 100 Religion 33 would be Christian 22 would be Muslim 14 would be Hindu 7 would be Buddhist 12 would believe in other religions 12 would not be religious or identify themselves as being aligned with a particular faith

Village of 100 First Language 12 would speak Chinese 5 would speak Spanish 5 would speak English 3 would speak Arabic 3 would speak Hindi 3 would speak Bengali 3 would speak Portuguese 2 would speak Russian 2 would speak Japanese 62 would speak other languages

Village of 100 Education 38 –76% of eligible males would have a primary school education 36 - 72% of eligible females would have a primary school education 33 - 66% of eligible males would have a secondary school education 31.5 - 63% of eligible females would have a secondary school education 7 would have a college degree

Village of 100 Literacy Overall Literacy 83 would be able to read and write 17 would not 44 - 88% of males would be able to read and write 6 - 12% of males would not be able to read and write 39.5 - 79% of females would be able to read and write 11.5 - 21% of females would not be able to read and write

Village of 100 Drinking Water Food Poverty Electricity 87 would have access to safe drinking water 13 would use unimproved water Food 30 would food security 50 would be malnourished 20 would be undernourished Poverty 48 would live on less than $2 USD per day Electricity 78 would have electricity 22 would not

Village of 100 Technology Sanitation Money 75 would be cell phone users 30 would be active internet users 22 would own or share a computer Sanitation 65 would have improved sanitation 16 would have no toilets 19 would have unimproved toilets Money 6 people own 59% of the world's wealth (all of them from the United States)

Village of 100 SO…….. If you keep your food in a refrigerator your clothes in a closet If you have a bed to sleep in and a roof over your head you are richer than 75% of the entire world population

Developing World Section Quiz A B 6. B 7. D 8. A 9. B 10. C