Unit Introduction
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Lesson 1 - Demography
Lesson 1A - Measuring and Understanding Population Change
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Lesson 1B - Demographic Transition Model
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Hans Rosling, population prophet: Five final thoughts: www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-39211144
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Lesson 1C - Population Pyramids
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Lesson 1D - Managing Population Growth
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Lesson 2 - Living Standards
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2. What are some of the ways that she criticizes Canadian (western) society? 3. To what extent do you agree with her ideas? Please submit your answers as a .doc or .pdf on Managebac.
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Lesson 3A - International Aid and the Poverty Trap
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Lesson 3B - Global Economics and Downward Levelling
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- Explain why downward levelling (aka. "the race to the bottom") occurs and how it affects poor countries
- Evaluate the benefits and implications of transnational investment in developing nations
- Reflect on the human and environmental cost of attracting foreign investment
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- Minimum wage
- Child labour laws
- Laws on worker organizations
- Corporate tax rates
- Environmental laws
- Participate in a Transnational Capital Auction simulation. Students are placed into teams that will submit a series of bids to attract a Transnational corporation to their country.
- Minimum wage
- Child labour laws
- Laws on worker organizations
- Corporate tax rates
- Environmental laws
- Respond to the following reflection questions on Managebac:
- What does it mean to have no environmental laws in a country? What might Capital do?
- What would be the social effects of such low wages?
- In the game, why did you keep driving down conditions in your country? Why didn't you get together and refuse to bid each other down?
- How could people in various countries get together to stop attacks on their social and environmental conditions?
- "Poor countries need investment, so it's a good thing when transnational companies invest there." To what extent do you agree/disagree about this statement?
- What can rich industrialized nations (Canada) do to stop this "race to the bottom"?
- Look over your bids. If Capital were to accept your bid and invest in your country, what would be the real environmental and human cost?
- One company used to manufacture all of its products in the US, paying wages that avereaged $16/hour. The investment director for this company now travels every month to countries like Indonesia, Nicaragua, and El Salvador looking for sites to produce his company's products. He says that he would prefer to keep all the production in the US. Based on this simulation, why do you think this company feels forced to move production to poor countries?
Inquiry Assignment: CIDA Project
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- As a member of Canada's International Development Agency (CIDA), you will identify a low development country and assess strategies to raise the standard of living for its population. For this assignment you will need to have a strong understanding of population dynamics, various influences on living standards and development, and investigative techniques that will help you identify the best ways of investing aid money.
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Links and Resources:
- CIDA / Department of Global Affairs: www.international.gc.ca/international/index.aspx?lang=eng
- CIA World Factbook: www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
- UN Development Goals: www.un.org/millenniumgoals/
- UN Human Development Reports: hdr.undp.org/en/
- OXFAM Canada: www.oxfam.ca/
- National Geographic - 7 Billion: ngm.nationalgeographic.com/7-billion
- BBC News: www.bbc.com/news