Global Divides Part1 Flashcards
Global north
United States
Canada
Western Europe
Australia
New Zealand
Developed parts of Asia
• home to all the members of the G8
(France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Japan, the United States, Canada, and Russia)
• and the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council
North
-richer/ more developed region
- one-quarter of the world population controls four-fifths of the income earned anywhere in the world
-__% of the manufacturing industries are owned by and located in the north
North - 90%
-__% of the North has enough food and shelter
-__% of the North has a
functioning educational system
95%
95%
• poorer
• less developed region
-with three-quarters of the world populations has access to / of the world income
*South - 1/5
• only _% of the population has enough food and shelter
• it lacks appropriate technology
• it has no political stability
• the economies are disarticulated
• their foreign exchange earnings depend on primary product exports
South - 5%
emerged in the early post-World War Il era.
• They argued that the major barriers to development were posed by the Global South countries’ own internal characteristics.
Liberal economic development theories of modernization
these theorists predicted that its benefits would eventually “trickle down” to broad segments of society.
Liberal economic development theories of modernization
An economic historian and US policy maker formalized this theory in his influential book The Stages of Economic Growth (1960).
Walt R. Rostow
He predicted that traditional societies beginning the path of development would inevitably pass through various stages by means of the free market and would eventually take off to become similar to the mass consumption societies of the capitalist North.
Walt R. Rostow
- a view of development that the leading capitalist states dominate and exploit the poorer countries on the periphery of the world economy.
Dependency theory
Its central proposition is that the structure of the capitalist world economy is based on a division of labor between a dominant core and a subordinate periphery.
Dependency Theory
Argues that countries in the Global South are vulnerable to cultural penetration by outside forces, which saturate them with values from other societies.
Immanuel Wallerstein
members of the Global South that have begun exporting manufactured goods to the Global North.
Newly Industrialized Countries (NICs)
-describes the industrialization of peripheral areas in a system otherwise dominated by the Global North.
Dependent development
The term suggest the possibility of either growing or declining prosperity, but not outside the confines of a continuing dominance-dependence relationship between North and South.
Dependent Development
