POL 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: G1 Phase, Sub-Saharan Africa, Communist Party Of China
27 Nov 2017
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Empirical i: qatar ,000 gdp/cap; car gdp/cap. Gdp/cap measures how big a country"s economy is per person: symptoms of the north-south gap. Former (cid:873)first world(cid:874) states: during the cold )ar, . Former (cid:873)second world(cid:874) states: during the cold )ar, . Former (cid:873)third world(cid:874) states: countries that were non-aligned during cold )ar, not only (cid:873)poor(cid:874) countries, but many of them were, this is why first/second/third world to describe countries is now archaic, because cold )ar is over. 40% world population, of land area, gdp. Biggest economies by 2050? ii. iii: )hy is india categori ed as a bric, opec states, one of the world"s fastest economies, even though gdp per capita is still low, but their gdp per capita is growing. South korea, hong kong, taiwan, singapore (cid:840)asian tigers(cid:841: nobody considers these 4 economies to be global south anymore, newly industriali ed economies (cid:840)nies(cid:841, sub-saharan africa but are developed global north economies.
