3.1.1 Poverty reduction
Content
- Geographic inquiry and concept(s)
- How global development processes affect resource availability and consumption
- Geographic knowledge and understanding
- Global and regional/continental progress towards poverty reduction, including the growth of the 'new global middle class'
- Case study or detailed examples
- Neither required by the syllabus
- Aims of this lesson
- To be able to describe and explain global progress towards poverty reduction
- To be able to describe and explain regional/continental progress towards poverty reduction
Base knowledge and understanding
News article
Key terms
- Emerging world
- Emerging markets are typically countries with low to middle per capita income that have undertaken economic development and reform programmes and have begun to 'emerge' as significant players in the global economy.
- International poverty line
- A monetary threshold under which an individual is considered to be living in poverty.
- Poverty
- The state of not having enough material possessions or income for a person's basic needs
- Purchasing power parities
- Exchange rates that account for relative price differences across countries.
- Scale
- [An organising Geographic concept] Places can be identified at a variety of geographic scales, from local territories to the national or state level. Climate change affects the world at a planetary level.
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Review
- Outline what is meant by the 'new global middle class'. [2]
- Explain two ways in which the growth of a middle class in emerging economies affects global resource consumption. [4]
- International flows of waste cause more harm to receiving countries than the consumption patterns that created them. To what extent do you agree with this statement? [10]
- Economic development is the greatest contributor to the enhanced greenhouse effect. To what extent do you agree with this statement? [10]
- Reducing the ecological footprint of high-income countries is the most important step towards sustainable resource consumption. To what extent do you agree with this statement? [10]
- The new global middle class places greater pressure on resources than total population growth ever could. To what extent do you agree with this statement? [10]
- “The main reason for changing trends in global resource consumption is the development of the new global middle class.” To what extent do you agree with this statement? [10]
- “Increased consumption by the global middle class is the greatest threat to future resource security.” To what extent do you agree with this statement? [10]