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Global and regional/continental progress towards poverty reduction...
Subject Guide
Global and regional/continental progress towards poverty reduction, including the growth of the “new global middle class”
Global and regional/continental progress towards poverty reduction, including the growth of the “new global middle class”
What is poverty?
There are many different types of poverty; three important types are briefly explained below:
•Situationalpoverty is caused by a sudden crisis or loss and is often temporary. Causes might include environmental disasters, divorce, or severe health problems.
•Absolute poverty involves a lack of basic needs such as shelter, clean water, and food. People in absolute poverty will probably focus on day-to-day survival.
•Relative poverty is where people's incomes fall significantly below the average for the place where they live. They may have access to basic needs and more but will be poorer than other people and families in the same place.
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Task: Usinga copy of the map ,comment on the regional and continental progress in achieving poverty reduction in light of MDG 1 - Eradicate Extreme Poverty & Hunger.
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Use the graph on the left (or the one in your textbook p234) to identify and describe changing patterns of poverty worldwide. You should consider:
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The global economy has grown rapidly since the 1950s, at a rate much faster than population growth. Since the MDGs were introduced in 2000, global poverty has halved. The most rapid progress has been made in Asia, but as the World Bank data shows, progress has been made in all global regions (NB this is not the same as saying that progress has been made in all countries - what might be the exceptions?).
Poverty does remain widespread in many areas of southern Asia and in Sub-Saharan Africa.\\
READ: Kognity 3.1.1 Global and regional poverty
Make notes on the aims of the SDGs and poverty reduction
The Magic Washing Machine - Hans Rosling
- Why does Rosling identify the washing machine as a significant indicator?
- What does the video tell us about changing levels of global poverty/inequality?
Extra information:
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Yes They Can!
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The global middle class
Traditionally the term "middle class" has been used to describe a socio-economic group between the workers (working class) and the elite workers and capitalists (ruling class or bourgeoisie).
The term "new global middle class" is used to refer to the growing number of people worldwide who have moved out of poverty and who have "discretionary income" (money that is not needed to provide basic needs). This money can be spent on consumer goods, health care and, at the upper end, holidays and cars.
Definitions vary but a common one is those households with per capita incomes between $10 and $100 per person per day (pppd) in 2005 PPP terms. This implies an annual income for a four-person middle-class household of $14,600 to $146,000. Clearly, this means that there is huge variation within the NGMC.
Traditionally the term "middle class" has been used to describe a socio-economic group between the workers (working class) and the elite workers and capitalists (ruling class or bourgeoisie).
The term "new global middle class" is used to refer to the growing number of people worldwide who have moved out of poverty and who have "discretionary income" (money that is not needed to provide basic needs). This money can be spent on consumer goods, health care and, at the upper end, holidays and cars.
Definitions vary but a common one is those households with per capita incomes between $10 and $100 per person per day (pppd) in 2005 PPP terms. This implies an annual income for a four-person middle-class household of $14,600 to $146,000. Clearly, this means that there is huge variation within the NGMC.
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Describe the growth in the Global Middle Class from 1950 to the present day.
What do projections suggest about future growth?
Can you suggest any factors that might limit the growth of the NGMC in future?
What do projections suggest about future growth?
Can you suggest any factors that might limit the growth of the NGMC in future?
Extra information:
Summary task:
- Watch the two videos beneath and design your own mind map / piktochart that shows the causes and consequences of an explosion of the numbers of people in the middle classes.
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