Day 29: Measuring poverty and the poverty trap

Projects due on Monday: Discussion on group and individual responsibilities. 

Did you delegate responsibilities?  Did your group members meet time lines?
Be respectful of group members' time.  If your group member is not doing his or her share of work then please speak to me.  Don't reward a group member by doing extra work and completing work for him/her. 

Debrief Mexico City video yesterday. 
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)

Click to watch a clip of water pollution in Rio leading up to the 2016 olympics

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.
 A look at the problems in Vancouver's downtown Eastside: Click to watch

The Province's look at the Downtown Eastside

Harsh reality of the Downtown Eastside (Watch from 2-4 minute mark): Click to watch