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INEQUALITY MATTERS:. Global Inequalities: Globalization and Canada. Surveying Global Inequities: Income and Poverty. Dogland = mid ranking $1.25 us = 1.5 billion ( approx ) $32 000 vs $180 Zimbabwe/Lesotho* 1% = 40% global assets/ 50% = 1% assets 39 years = life exp. In Sierra Leone
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INEQUALITY MATTERS: Global Inequalities: Globalization and Canada
Surveying Global Inequities:Income and Poverty • Dogland = mid ranking • $1.25 us = 1.5 billion (approx) • $32 000 vs $180 Zimbabwe/Lesotho* • 1% = 40% global assets/ 50% = 1% assets • 39 years = life exp. In Sierra Leone * Only 2 countries to decline in well being ranks
Causes/blame? • Our appetites - Case studies – Bangladesh, Bananas, Cuban Tourism • Colonial legacy + plunder of globalization - Case studies – Asbestos, Barrick, Caterpillar • National elites • Structural adjustments • Foreign Aid and Development
Globalization: More Inequality? More Equality? WHAT IS GLOBALIZATION? • Worldwide Integration /Interconnected: Globe as village / New world order/ Unit of wealth creation/global division of labour • Selectively Open borders / faster flow of capital, investment, trade, but not … • Multidimensional – Ec, pol, communication, culture etc • Capitalist penetration/the new colonialism
Impact and effects - dble edged/ “trickle down” or “pee’don” - case study, caterpillar • New patterns of social inequality within? • Is there a better globalization? Humanistic:“bottom up” or “peoples”
Canada and Global Inequalities • Problem or solution? - case studies: asbestos, bananas, barrick, cuba
Foreign Aid and (Under) Development • - Flawed logic - case study, CIDA - good, bad, the ugly - case study, Haiti • Faulty Design, Implementation, Effects - aid capture
Final exam • Thursday, June 20, 7-9, Here • ‘Snow’ Date=? • Format = MC + Short Answers • Content = Ch 7-12