1. Agenda ► Questions? ► Review  Components of population growth  Rural and urban origins of migrants  Interprovincial migration  http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census01/products/analyti c/Multimedia.cfm?M=5 http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census01/products/analyti c/Multimedia.cfm?M=5 http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census01/products/analyti c/Multimedia.cfm?M=5 ► Global Economic Development (Chap 3)  A process of change  Economic structure (see next slide)  Political structure

2. Another way of illustrating economic structure

3. Today ► Global Economic Development (Chap 3)  Digression on global communications and geodesy ► Processes of change (the third) ► Technology  Economic Development Process  Rostow’s Model  Critics  Regional Economic Change ► Rostowian internal growth theory ► Economic Base  Staples Theory in Canada

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6. Global Economic Development ► ► * processes of change involving the nature and composition of the economy in a particular region as well as to increases in the overall prosperity of a region ► ► Processes of change: ► ► Changes in economic structure ► ► Changes in political structure ► ► Changes in technology

7. Technology ► * application of scientific knowledge and methods to economic activity, resulting in changes in productivity  Wheeler et al. p. 35 ► interrelationships between different technologies: ► Mass vehicle ownership & road systems ► Large scale meat-packing in Chicago & reefer car ► Energy

8. Technology (contd) ► Spatial diffusion ► Appropriate technology  Labour displacement ► Technological dependence  From know-how to know why ► Technology the great emancipator?  Or a new form of dependency?

9. Economic Development Process

10. Rostow’s Stages Model of Economic Growth

11. Trade centres with a linear market