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How did the development gap grow?

How did the development gap grow?. To look at why the gap between rich and poor countries is one of the world’s biggest problems. Take a look at???. Starter - Look at the cartoons and captions . There are three main reasons to explain the gap between the rich and poor countries.

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How did the development gap grow?

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  1. How did the development gap grow? To look at why the gap between rich and poor countries is one of the world’s biggest problems.

  2. Take a look at??? • Starter - Look at the cartoons and captions. • There are three main reasons to explain the gap between the rich and poor countries. • 1 = Historical reasons • 2 = Environmental reasons • 3 = Socio-economic reasons. • For each reason think of your own sentence to briefly explain that reason. (Hint – look at the sentence under the reason)

  3. Things to do! • Complete your own sentences to explain each reason. - QUICKLY • Like this…

  4. Do you have a flag? • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTduy7Qkvk8

  5. For resources?....noooo..really? Explain the SLOW process of colonizing a nation and setting up infrastructures I the old days. How did nations control tribes? As the Colonizers left, what were the steps to continue development? • Government contracts (UK-China “Hong Kong”) for trade • Agreed prices • Good links with established families over the colonial days. • Create dependency

  6. http://www.youtube.com/movie?v=pktOXJr1vOQ&ob=av1e&feature=mv_srhttp://www.youtube.com/movie?v=pktOXJr1vOQ&ob=av1e&feature=mv_sr • Let’s watch this clip above and the one below to gain an understanding to the history of Development. • http://www.globalissues.org/video/778/luckiest-nut-in-the-world

  7. Key words; Empires UK, France, Spain + “be friendly, give stuff, spot tribal leader, bribe, fear through the army” Trade routes, agreements & laws Promote families, Leave south in debt (Dependency) Key words; USA grows, resources, under populated Fall of empires WW2 USA world friend Lend $ “be friendly, create employment, set prices, countries compete. Trade regulations Time line 1990-2011 1945-80 1600-1900 1900-45 1980-90 2011-50+??? What do you think and justify Key words; Trade liberalisation Privatisation Government sell resources to private companies, why????? Key words; North uses debt repayments to help set subsidies for own companies in their countries. North: encouragement of individual debt. Take the timeline and research more facts that evident the evolution of Development.

  8. Role Play, cartoon, documentary, short film, or something else! • On you tables choose any major nation that has developed over time (History) from simplistic farming, trading and rule to The nation it is today! • Create 3 scenes and scripts that has ALL THE MAJOR time line event’s and key decisions that have made a nation develop.

  9. Quiz time!! • Which four countries were the major players in trying to dominate the world??? • Explain how the non native population first began trading? • What were the two main barriers to early trading? • What pressures were put upon non native countries that changed the relationship with the indigenous people? • How did the non native now insist on trade and keep the locals “in line”? • What types of goods were traded? • Name 3 physical geography features and 3 human geography features that are negative for trading? • How did the empires fall? • With Liberation from the non natives came problems…what were they? • At the start of the 1900’s a country began to rise globally, who were they and name the sequence of events that led to their rise. • After WW2 America began to influence a lot of the world in an intelligent way how did they do that? • How does Trade Liberlisation/ “Cash crops” work?

  10. Quiz answers: • Portugal, Spain France and England • Smile, good and resources (spices, Tea, Wood, Crops, gold) • Distance (sailing & crop harvest/mining time) language (hence schools were built) • “Supply and demand” from Europeans and the America’s. Threat of job loss for Captains and Admirals from King’s, Queen’s & Government changed their attitudes and put pressures on the locals. • Bribe, lands, title for increased production, or threats (individual, family), fear, betrayal (tribe rivalries) replacing tribal leaders, torture (usually public) banishment or execution. • Herbs, Iornore, Gold, Sliver, Ivory, Timber, Crops (sugar cane) People (Slavery), Tea, Diamonds. • 3 physical: weather; storms, snow. Mountains, crop growth and harvest times.. Human: language, culture, religions, Racism & time • Hard work to get to the top, Fall: Political unrest in colonised and empire countries. Inequalities, outsourcing the primary and secondary sectors cause extraction of wealth. • Inheritance of previous CONTRACTED empire debt, limited business and finance experience. Limited knowledge of political structure and management of people. Re invite old empire countries back to help under new individual/company contracts. • USA: Cotton production, Gold rush and oil exports, save the money and reinvest in primary, secondary and tertiary sections. Export of inventions, car, oil refinery technologies. Sales for pre and post WW2. • Lend money to countries after WW2 as America is “the worlds friend” in “Development contracts (agriculture & Industries technologies)” set up more international schools with the brightest getting scholarships to USA and jobs back in their own countries upon graduation to implement American Ideologies. Hollywood films to create the “American dream desire” and understand American English.

  11. Createyourownvenndiagamforyour country • Social-economical • Environmental • Historical

  12. Your Turn. Create a 5 min role play highlighting the miain information on “How development grew!”

  13. Lets see the history http://www.youtube.com/movie?v=pktOXJr1vOQ&ob=av1e&feature=mv_sr Use the writing frame with questions on development for the video clip (remember any clip can have bias, pull out the correlations…if any).

  14. 2012, have thinks balanced out? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15748696 USA or??? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMw6oF_xBZU

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