Source: UNDP
HDR 2004, p. 128
Source: UNDP
HDR 2004, p.
134
High human development group
LE at birth
GDP
US$
1 Norway 78.9
36,600
2 Sweden 80.0
26,050
3 Australia 79.1
28,260
4 Canada 79.3
29,480
5 Netherlands 78.3 29,100
6 Belgium 78.7
27,570
7 Iceland 79.7
29,750
8 U.S. 77.0
35,750
9 Japan 81.5
26,940
10 Ireland 76.9
36,360
Life Ed
GDP HD
Index Index Index Index
0.90
0.92
0.90
0.90
0.89
0.90
0.91
0.87
0.94
0.86
0.99
0.99
0.99
0.98
0.99
0.99
0.96
0.97
0.94
0.96
0.99
0.93
0.94
0.95
0.95
0.94
0.95
0.98
0.93
0.98
0.956
0.946
0.946
0.943
0.942
0.942
0.941
0.939
0.938
0.936
Agenda
► Questions?
 Assignment 1?
► Review
How do we measure
Human Development?
►A
composite measure…
 Life expectancy at birth
 Adult literacy rate
 Combined gross enrolment ratio for primary,
secondary and tertiary schools
 GDP per capita converted to US$ PPP
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Convert to indices and combine to HDI
Today
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Test 1, October 6
Interdependence in a Global Economy
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From the Atlantic to the Pacific
Trade
Core and Periphery in a World System
Test 1, October 6
50 minutes, a progress report
► Three sections:
► Multiple Choice 20@2=40
► Fill in blank 10@2=20
► One paragraph answer 2/4 @ 20=40
Foreign language dictionary OK
Calculator OK
Pencil for MC, pen for FiB, OPA
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Global Orientation
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Historic Atlantic Alliance
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Colonial ties
European emigration
Trade ties
Points of attachment
►US-Canadian
contrast
 NATO, Treaty of Washington, 1949
Global Orientation
►
Pacific Rim
 Recent shift
 Little consensus on definition
 An alliance?
Trade as a Measure of
Global Interdependence
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►
One measure
Goods and services
70% of world trade
Canada’s International Trade Balance,
2001
($ 000,000)
Commodity Classification
Section I Live animals
Section II Food, feed, bev. & tobacco
Section III Crude materials, inedible
Section IV Fabricated materials, inedible
Section V End products, inedible
Special transactions, trade, exports
Other balance of payments adjustments
United States
United Kingdom
Other EEC
Japan
Other OECD
All other countries
Exports
2,394
25,723
54,558
109,058
208,566
8,119
6,221
350,908
6,574
15,727
9,482
10,925
21,023
Imports Balance
398
1,996
18,674
7,050
20,939 33,619
69,444 39,614
227,895 (19,329)
6,843
1,275
6,430
(209)
255,028 95,880
11,863
(5,290)
23,225
(7,498)
10,585
(1,104)
18,626
(7,701)
31,295 (10,272)
Source: Statistics Canada 2003, Cansim II Table 228
Pacific Rim
US “is functioning in the traditional role of a
Third World country” with Pacific rim (p. 61)
► Large US deficit with Japan
► NICs, 4 little tigers, and
► One big lion…