Day 25: Population pressure and measuring poverty

Review MC sheet

Video: Mexico City (Populaton pressure)
Main ideas include:

• Push and pull factors
• problems associated with increasing population in cities
• connection between work-children-school
• living conditions of the poor
• urban problems (city development, roads, air quality, garbage disposal, water quality)

Handout: Measuring poverty (394/395) (World Bank.  Human poverty index)

Poverty Trap (pg. 396/97): IMF.  World Bank.  PECD.  Cycle of debt.  Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC).  Bilateral aid

Helping to improve living standards (413-417):
UNESCO.  NGOs.  ODA.  CIDA.

Government re-test on MC section next Wednesday, April 8th at lunch.