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

2. The Developing World

3. Use pages 37-42

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

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

8. 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

9. Artificial Boundaries

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11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. Village of 100
Education
38 –76% of eligible males would have a primary school education
% of eligible females would have a primary school education
% of eligible males would have a secondary school education
% of eligible females would have a secondary school education
7 would have a college degree

16. Village of 100 Literacy Overall Literacy
83 would be able to read and write
17 would not
% of males would be able to read and write
6 - 12% of males would not be able to read and write
% of females would be able to read and write
% of females would not be able to read and write

17. 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

18. 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)

19. 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

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