1. Economic Issues in Geography

2. What is the Economy?
Formal Economy?
Informal Economy?

3. Debate over Globalization
Regional Trade Blocs
NAFTA EU
ASEAN
ECOWAS
World Trade Org (WTO)
lower trade barriers
ground rules for international trade
World Bank
Structural Adjustment Policies (SAPs)
“race to the bottom”???

4. Human Development & Well-Being
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)
UN Human Development Index (HDI)
UN Gender Development Index (GDI)
UN Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM)
Development for whom?

6. Population Patterns Global Soil Degradation Population Density
Rate of Natural Increase (growth rate)
measured by?
Is Earth overpopulated?
Subsistence Lifestyle?
Sustainable Agriculture?
Non-Government Org (NGO)
Global Soil Degradation

8. Age & Gender Structures (males to females) Population Pyramid

9. Missing Females in Population Statistics

10. Global Warming: Estimated that global temperatures will rise btwn 3-9 degrees F by 2030.

11. State Nation