Global History 12 - Unit 2
The End of Poverty? Movie Questions
1. Who has control of the land for many in Asia, South Africa and Africa to this day?
Large land owners and transnational corporations
2. Who/ what became property of the government during colonization?
The country and the people
3. What is the Kipenda System?
A system of registration, where every male the moment you turn 16 will have a labour record. It is used to ensure that all male labourers are working. It was a colonial labour law
4. how many people are estimated today to still be living in slave life conditions all over the world? 60-80 million people
5. what is "La Mita" –
Bolivian Law that forced people to work inside the mine for 6 months without going outside. Men had to sleep and eat inside the mine without going outside.
6. From 1503 to 1660, Spain took enough silver from the New World to multiply European reserves by how much? 4
7. Who consisted of the Triad, and what did they impose on the world?
Occidental Europe, Japan and North America. Economic system of Capitalism
8. How many people are starving in Brazil? 50 million
9. In Latin America, the richest 1% of the population receives over 400 times as much income as the poorest 1%
10. Which country is the largest exporter of coffee, even though they can not produce it in their country? Germany
11. Since 1960, LDC countries have suffered from a 70% drop in price of agricultural exports compared to manufactured imports.
12. What religion was imposed on the colonies? Christianity
13. The richest 1% of the world’s population owns 32% of the wealth.
14. Today more than 1 billion people live in the slums of the South.
15. Although many countries are now politically independent, many in the South part of the gap must answer to whom? World Bank, IMF & The World Trade Organization
16. When the new independent countries were decolonized, what did they inherit?
Massive debit brought on by their former colony owners. This allowed companies and Northern countries to continue to have power over them.
17. Sub Saharan Africa pays 25 thousand dollars a minute to Northern Creditors.
18. The South is paying the North 200 billion dollars a year
19. The developing world spends $13 on debt repayment for every $1 it receives in grants.
20. During the privatization of water in Bolivia this type of water was also taxed. – Rain Water
21. Almost 1/3 of the world’s population has no access to affordable clean water.
22. Privatization of health care results in 1 out of 3 people dying without having received treatment.
23. In 1970, 434 million people were suffering from malnutrition. Today, there are 854 million.
24. Cutting global poverty in half would cost $20 billion, less than 4% of the U.S. military budget
25. Poverty might end if: the North forgives international debt, change taxes from wages to taxes on property, land reform, restoring the land to those who work it, and ending privatization of natural resources.
26. Raising food prices could plunge an additional 100 million people into extreme poverty
27. 16,000 children die each day from hunger or hunger-related diseases.