1. GO131: International Relations Professor Walter Hatch Colby College North vs South

2. A World Divided

3. Where the Poor Live

4. Who’s Doing Poorly

5. Who’s Doing Poorly (II)

6. Trends in Global Poverty

7. Trends in Global Poverty (II)

8. Global Poverty: Some Facts 34 percent of Africans are chronically undernourished Nearly half of all adults in Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia are illiterate Clean water is scarce. One fifth of the world’s population lacks access to safe drinking water

9. A Growing Income Gap

10. …depends on how you look at it

11. Change in Global Inequality

12. Why is the Global South so Poor? Two Views Marxist Liberal

13. Marxist View European colonialism and imperialism Dependency and neo-dependency Gunder Frank Role of the state? Iran in 1953 Guatemala in 1954 Chile in 1973

14. Liberal View Third World is victim of its own bad policies Economists: “Get prices right” Bruce Scott: “Get institutions right” Demographers: “Get population right”

15. Modes of North-South Interaction Trade FDI Technology Transfer Foreign Aid (ODA) Infrastructure and social programs Does it help or hurt? Debt restructuring and relief Paris Club London Club

16. Bilateral Aid

17. Bilateral Aid (II)

18. Multilateral Organizations

19. NGOs

20. The Third World Responds Calls for Reform New International Economic Order (1973) UNCTAD & UNDP G-20 in WTO Calls for Revolution China (1949) Cuba (1959) Algeria (1962) Vietnam, Cambodia, Angola, Mozambique (1975) Nicaragua and Iran (1979) Afghanistan (1992)

21. South-South Cooperation/Collusion Resource Cartels Coffee, bananas, copper, oil OPEC $55 per barrel