Reading Responses: Again

Happy Thanksgiving, but turn your responses in first!

Julia Smith

Once again, reading responses

You may post them here.

Julia Smith

Reading responses

Sorry this is late.

JS

Reading Responses Again

Enjoy!

Water War?

Might this be the first real water war?

Egypt’s conundrum over food security and the Nile’s water

Oops: Reading Responses

Better late than never. Post them here.

Gapminder

The presentation we looked at Friday and today is from http://www.gapminder.org.  There's a lot more great data there.  You might be interested in poking around a bit more.

Reading Responses: Week 5

You may post reading responses here.

Reading Responses: Week 4

This is where you can post your reading responses for this week.

Life and Debt

Here's the website for the film we watched on Friday: http://www.lifeanddebt.org/

Reading Responses: Week 3

You know what to do.

Reading Responses: Week 2

For this week, you have two assignments: Robbins Chapter 3 (focusing on pp. 93-107) and Collier Chapter 1.  This is a spot in which you can post a response, if you'd like to, or comment on the reading.  Make sure you identify yourself in a way that I can give you credit.

Resources: The World Bank listing of GNI per capita

This links to the PDF of the document that gives per capita income (adjusted for costs of living) of countries around the world: http://siteresources.worldbank.org/DATASTATISTICS/Resources/GNIPC.pdf

A couple of observations:

First, the methods of adjustment.  The Atlas method adjusts for currency fluctuations and inflation by using multi-year data.  The PPP (purchasing power parity) method adjusts for the fact that stuff costs different amounts in different countries by evaluating the "purchasing power" that the  money has.  This effectively makes the per capita income in poor countries higher. Which is a good way to look at poverty, but not necessarily a good way to look at migration (because higher salaries can be spent in other places).

Second, I've asked you to think about the regional aspects of this income distribution. Where are the rich countries? Where are the poor ones? And where do we find rich and poor countries close to one another?


Enjoy!

Welcome!

Welcome to the blog for Julia Smith's Revolution and Development (Anth 366) class.  This is an experiment, so let me know what you think!  I'll be posting links, copies of assignments, and places where you can put your reading responses (if you'd like).  So keep an eye here!