Is money evenly distributed in the world The Distribution of Wealth Key Questions Where is wealth distributed What is the development gap What are HICsMICsLICs Can I draw and interpret ID: 528260
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The Distribution of Wealth
Is money evenly distributed in the world?Slide2
The Distribution of Wealth
Key Questions:
Where is wealth distributed
?
What is the development gap
?
What are HICs/MICs/LICs
?
Can I draw and interpret
choropleth
maps?
So…which continents do you think have the most money?
Try to rank them…
Let’s see…
http://www.rgs.org/webcasts/activities/wherebillionaires.html
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We are what we eat…
The following ten pictures are in descending order of the price paid (measured in US dollars) of a family of four’s food consumption for a week.
Food as one of the basic staples of life is a good way of measuring the level and type of development that has been achieved around the world.
Guess which country each family comes from, and how much their weekly shopping bill was in $ (=6RMB)Slide4
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Source: ‘Hungry Planet: What the World Eats’ by Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio (2005)
1. GERMANY - $500
2. USA (North Carolina) - $342
3. ITALY - $260
4. GREAT BRITAIN - $253
5. MEXICO - $189
6. CHINA - $155
7. EGYPT - $68
8. ECUADOR - $31
9. BHUTAN - $5
10. REFUGEE CAMP Sudanese living in Chad - $1.23Slide15
So where do billionaires live…
Look at your table – how are you going to calculate the last column for each region
? Copy out the table.
Region
Population (millions)
Billionaires total
Billionaires per 100 million population
Africa
933
5
Asia
3700
142
Australia & New Zealand
25
13
Europe
810
265
Latin America
556
36
Middle East
193
193
North America
334
441Slide16
Create a
choropleth
map
showing wealth distribution
Add a title to your world mapAdd a key for your map – Colour each category and then the right regionsDescribe the pattern of distribution
Suggest
reasons for this
distributionSlide17
Economic DevelopmentSlide18
So what is the ‘development gap’?
In 1981, the West German Chancellor Brandt produced a landmark report on uneven global development
This became known as the north-south divide….divided by the ‘Brandt line’Slide19
North-South Divide
Brandt Commission in 1981
TASK:
With help from
a
world map, name 5 countries north of the Brandt line and 5 south of itSlide20
Does the Brandt line still apply today?
TASK:
Using your map, try drawing your own Brandt line dividing MEDCs to LEDCs
Discuss:
What’s changed today? Which countries have become more developed and why?!