Week 7: Contemporary World

NORTH and SOUTH

REGIONS
“OBJECTIVES:
At the end of the lesson the student should
be able to:
• Identify the terms of global North and ”
global South.
• Enumerate the different reasons why
North and South is divide.
• To appreciate the lifestyle and culture of
the North and South Global.
Motivation “Guess the picture”
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•“The North-South divide is broadly considered
a socio-economic and political divide.
• TheGlobal North include the United States,
Canada, Western, Europe as well as Australia”
and New Zealand.
• The Global South is made up of African, Latin
America and developing Asia including the
Middle East.
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The North mostly covers the West
and the First World, along with
much of the Second World while ”
the South largely corresponds with
the third world.
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• The north defined as the richer, more developed
region and south as the poorer, less developed
region, many more factors differentiate between the
two global areas.
• 95% of the North has enough food and shelter.
GLOBAL SOUTH
What makes a
nation a Third
World?
 GLOBAL SOUTH
• Lacks appropriate technology
• Has no political stability
• Economies are disarticulated
• The foreign exchange earnings depend on primary
product exports.
• The Global South is a term that has been
emerging in the transnational and postcolonial
studies to refer to what may also called be called
the “ Thirld World” Africa, Latin America and the
developing countries Asia.
• Itcan also include poorer southern regions of
wealthy northern countries.
• The global south is more than the
extension of a metaphor underdeveloped
countries.
• It refers to those countries interconnected
histories of colonialism, neo-imperialism
and differential economic and social
change through which large inequalities in
living standards, life expectancy and
access to resources are maintained.
• In economic terms, the North with one quarter of
the world population controls four-fifths of the
income earned anywhere on the world 90% of the
manufacturing industries are owned by and
located in the North.
• While the South with 3 quarters of the world
populations has access to one fifth of the world
income.
ANY QUESTIONS ?
THANK YOU!!