Agenda

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Agenda

• Questions?
• Review
• Components of population growth
• Rural and urban origins of migrants
• Interprovincial migration
• http//www12.statcan.ca/english/census01/products/
  analytic/Multimedia.cfm?M5
• Global Economic Development (Chap 3)
• A process of change
• Economic structure (see next slide)
• Political structure

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Another way of illustrating economic structure
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Today

• Global Economic Development (Chap 3)
• Digression on global communications and geodesy
• Processes of change (the third)
• Technology
• Economic Development Process
• Rostows Model
• Critics
• Regional Economic Change
• Rostowian internal growth theory
• Economic Base
• Staples Theory in Canada

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Global Economic Development

• processes of change involving the nature and
  composition of the economy in a particular region
  as well as to increases in the overall prosperity
  of a region
• Processes of change
• Changes in economic structure
• Changes in political structure
• Changes in technology

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Technology

• application of scientific knowledge and methods
  to economic activity, resulting in changes in
  productivity
• Wheeler et al. p. 35
• interrelationships between different
  technologies
• Mass vehicle ownership road systems
• Large scale meat-packing in Chicago reefer car
• Energy

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Technology (contd)

• Spatial diffusion
• Appropriate technology
• Labour displacement
• Technological dependence
• From know-how to know why
• Technology the great emancipator?
• Or a new form of dependency?

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Economic Development Process
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Rostows Stages Model of Economic Growth
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Trade centres with a linear market
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Trade centres with a linear market