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    Global Divides: The North and The South

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    The document discusses the global socioeconomic divide between wealthy Northern countries and poorer Southern countries. It describes the "Brandt Line" that historically divided countries into rich North and poor South. While some Southern countries have developed economically since the 1980s, many still face challenges like poverty, lack of food and shelter, weak domestic economies dependent on Northern corporations, and lower standards of living compared to the North. The North-South gap refers to the large economic differences between the regions.

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    The document discusses the global socioeconomic divide between wealthy Northern countries and poorer Southern countries. It describes the "Brandt Line" that historically divided countries into rich North and poor South. While some Southern countries have developed economically since the 1980s, many still face challenges like poverty, lack of food and shelter, weak domestic economies dependent on Northern corporations, and lower standards of living compared to the North. The North-South gap refers to the large economic differences between the regions.

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    The document discusses the global socioeconomic divide between wealthy Northern countries and poorer Southern countries. It describes the "Brandt Line" that historically divided countries into rich North and poor South. While some Southern countries have developed economically since the 1980s, many still face challenges like poverty, lack of food and shelter, weak domestic economies dependent on Northern corporations, and lower standards of living compared to the North. The North-South gap refers to the large economic differences between the regions.

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    Global Divides: The North and The South

    The North–South divide - is a global socio-economic and political divide originating in the late 20th
    century and early 21st century.

    The Brandt Line - is an imaginary division that has provided a rough way of dividing all of the countries
    in the world in to the rich north and poor south. Many countries in the poor south have become more
    developed since the 1980s and so many people now think that the Brandt line is no longer useful.

    The North The South

    North America, Western Europe, Australia, and Africa, Latin America, and Asia
    Japan

    Known as First World Poor and less developed region

    Home to four out of five permanent members of 5% of the population has enough food and shelter
    United Nations Security Council

    Richer and developed region It serves as a source of raw material for the North

    95% has enough food and shelter and functional


    educational system as well

    The Global South: Zone of Turmoil

    *Many of the people in the global south faces poverty, war and tyranny.

    *Great diversity in size, form of government and level of economic development (e.g., Qatar), but
    generally former Global North colonies.

    *Many global south countries lack well-developed domestic market economies based on
    entrepreneurship and private enterprise.

    *Global South countries have been unable to evolve an indigenous technology appropriate to their own
    resources and have been dependent on powerful Global North multinational corporations (MNCs) to
    transfer technical know-how.

    * Life is a struggle for those who live in extreme poverty.

    *Poverty is a force that robs your confidence steals your pride, deadens your ambition, limits your
    imagination and psychologically cripples, (Mazumdar, 2009).

    The North-South gap - Term used to describe the economic gap between the rich norther country and
    the poor southern country.
    During cold war - Primary global division was between West ans East, and predicated upon security and
    power balance.

    After Cold War - Many see primary global division as being between North and South, and predicated
    upon economic inequality.

    Issues of North-South Divide

    1. Standard of Living - Factors: lack of trade and aid, single crop farming, abundance of debt, and
    Neocolonialism.

    2. Distribution of income around the world

    - Liberalization of market occurs, most South countries lost to the competition from the North.

    - Encourage migration of people from South to North for having more good income.

    3. Economic competition worldwide - Factors that determing the competitiveness of economy:


    appropriate infastructure, stable macro-economic framework, and well functioning public and private
    institution.

    Some countries are developing faster than others. Many Asian countries are quickly developing, while
    many african countries are slowly developing.

    Major differences in North and South

    North South

    Less Population Large Population

    High Wealth Low Wealth

    High Standard Living Low Standard Living

    High Industrial Develoment Low Industrial Develoment

    Industrial Agricultural

    Classification of Countries

    Most Developed Countries (MDCs) - the richest of the industrialized and democratic nations of the world.

    Less Developed Countries (LDCs) - countries with little industrial development, little wealth, and high population
    growth.

    Least Develoed Countries (LLDCs) - very low per capital income, low literacy rates and very little in the way of
    manufacturing industries.

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