Transcript Human Development Index

Human Development Index
Countries with the highest quality of life according to the UN
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Norway
Iceland
How does the UN measure quality of Life?
1. Life Expectancy
2. Education (literacy)
Australia
3. Purchasing Power
Luxembourg
5. Canada
6. Sweden
7. Switzerland
8. Ireland
9. Belgium
10. United States
11. Japan
12. Netherlands
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Finland
Denmark
United Kingdom
France
Austria
Italy
New Zealand
Least Livable Countries in 2005
1.Niger
2.Sierra Leone
3.Burkina Faso
4.Mali
5.Chad
6.Guinea-Bissau
7.Central African Rep.
8.Ethiopia
9.Burundi
10.Mozambique
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Congo, Dem. Rep. of
Zambia
Malawi
Tanzania
Côte d’Ivoire
Benin
Eritrea
Angola
Rwanda
Nigeria
Conclusion…
STRONG RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN INDUSTRIALIZED /
POST INDUSTRIALIAZED
SOCIETIES AND QUALITY OF
LIFE
Aim: How did the Industrial Revolution impact the world?
1) Radical Changes In Lifestyle
Goods Made Quicker and Cheaper
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Technology improves exponentially
More people can have more material “stuff”  greater materialism
Economies of Industrial Nations Become Stronger
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More money  more power and influence in world
Increased gap between power of nations
Working Conditions
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More jobs available
Jobs move to factories
Factory owners demand long hours
Work becomes monotonous
Growth of Middle Class
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More people with “comfortable” life more people w/ time for politics 
greater democratization  more people demand changes  social
reforms
Urbanization - growth of cities as more people move to urban areas
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Drop in sanitation
Crowded housing
Aim: How did the Industrial Revolution impact the
world?
2) Rise of Global Inequality
• Industrial countries become richer at greater rate than non200
industrial countries
Gap between rich
and poor nations
increasing
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Industrialized
Nonindustrialized
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Year 2
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Year 4
• Policy of exploitation - to benefit unfairly from the work of
someone else
– Countries need raw goods
– Countries need new markets
Industrialized countries compete for colonies to exploit…
Aim: How did the Industrial Revolution impact the
world?
3) Imperialism - strong nations controlling
weaker ones politically, socially, or culturally.
• Strong nations race to control weaker ones
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Need for raw goods
Need for new markets
Nationalism
Racism and Social Darwinism - applying Charles
Darwin’s theory of “survival of the fittest” to societies
– Used as an excuse to exploit “it’s natural”
Imperialism in Africa
1. Where do you think this picture was taken?
2. Describe the scene?
3. What is the relationship between the Industrial
Revolution and this photo?