Changing Population – Global Politics HL
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Changing Population
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Part 1: Population and Economic Development Patterns - Physical factors affecting population distribution
- Human factors affecting population distribution
- Economic development and cultural attitudes
- Global patterns of economic development – methods of classification
- Shortcomings of GNI as an indicator for development
- Economic development – a narrow indicator
- External vs internal forces that affect economic development
- Internal forces affect a country from within:
- Population distribution and economic development at the national scale
- Economic cores and peripheries
- Core-periphery patterns at varying scales
- Internal migration
- Urban PULL factors:
- Rural PUSH factors:
- ‘Shrinking World Technologies” accelerating internal migration
- The emergence of megacities
- Case Study 1: China – Uneven Population Distribution
- China’s economic development
- Growth in economic development:
- Internal migration in China
- The growth of suburban environments in China
- The growth of megacities in China
- Case Study 2: Nigeria – Uneven Population Distribution
- Population distribution in Nigeria
- Nigeria’s economic development
- Internal migration in Nigeria
- The Primacy of Lagos
- Part 2 – Changing Population and Places
- The Demographic Transition Model
- Stage 1: High Stationary
- Stage 2: Early Expanding
- Stage 3: Late Expanding
- Stage 4: Low Stationary
- Stage 5: Declining?
- Population structure and dependency
- Population structure with development
- Case Study 1: Nigeria’s population structure
- Drivers of population change in Nigeria
- Case study 2: China’s population change
- The consequences of megacity growth
- Lagos, a city of change
- ADVANTAGES
- DISADVANTAGES
- Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Consequence 1 – Traffic congestion and air pollution
- Consequence 2 – Laxed infrastructure
- Consequence 3 – Low pay and poor working conditions
- Forced migration and internal displacement in Nigeria
- Types of migration (classification)
- Forced migration and internal displacement
- Internal displacement in Nigeria
- Causes of internal displacement in Nigeria
- Reason 2: Environmental stresses
- Consequences for people
- Conditions in camps
- The European Migration Crisis
- War in Syria and Iraq
- Patterns of Migration
- Mediterranean Crossings
- Crossing the Sahara Desert
- Life in Agadez, a transit town
- In Libya
- Arrival in Europe
- Part 3 – Challenges and opportunities
- Trends in household size
- Family size
- Population structure
- Sex ratio
- Reasons for this imbalance:
- Pro-natalist policies and policies associated with ageing societies
- Reasons for the unsuccessful pro-natalist policy could include:
- To increase fertility, Italy could:
- Anti-natalist policies
- China’s One Child Policy (1977) – SUCCESS
- The Bangladesh Miracle – SUCCESS
- angladesh anti-natal policy (Consequences on health)
- Bangladesh anti-natal policy (Intervention/program)
- Bangladesh anti-natal policy (Impact, cost and effectiveness)
- Anti-natal policy in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) – FAILURE
- Policies associated with gender equality in DEVELOPING countries
- Gender equality in developing countries
- Gender imbalance
- China’s (a developing country) policies to improve gender imbalance
- Female access to human capital
- The role of international organisations
- Policies to address maternal mortality
- Case study: Maternal care in Honduras
- Challenges of addressing maternal mortality
- HOW IS IT BEING ADDRESSED?
- Data evidence informs policy
- NGO policy increases female economic opportunities
- Policies that target female access to finance
- Policies associated with gender inequality in DEVELOPED countries
- The Gender Data Gap
- Gender Pay Gaps
- #MeToo Movement
- Policies associated with human trafficking
- Anti-trafficking policies
- The scale of human trafficking
- international treaties
- The role of INTERPOL
- Case Study 1: Project Akoma, Ivory Coast, 2015
- Case Study 2: Operation Libertad, 2018 Caribbean
- Policies in the private sector
- Case Study: Marriott International, A Million Eyes
- Case Study: Marriott International, A Million Eyes
- Trafficking in Nigeria
- US Department of State – 2020 report Nigeria
- Demographic Dividend
- Case Study 1: South Korea
- Case Study 2: India
Ryan
Ryan's score of 44 points in November 2022 examinations earned him a coveted spot in the Engineering Scholar's Programme at the National University of Singapore where he will be majoring in Chemical Engineering.
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