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relaxing of environmental and/or worker protections or lowering of corporate taxes to attract investment, availability of cheap consumer goods produced offshore, consumer backlash and the development of the buy-local movement)
Sample questions: “How has globalization facilitated the international reach of agribusiness? What impact has this had on smaller local producers and on consumer choice?”
E2.2 explain the significance of a variety of inter- national events/developments (e.g., natural disasters, war, terrorism, changes in governments, technological changes, increasing international debt) and policies (e.g., with respect to trade, the environment, energy, security) for the Canadian economy
E2.3 describe Canadian government responses to global economic challenges that affect stability (e.g., shifts in the global balance of power, global recession, reliance on oil from the Middle East or other unstable geopolitical areas, misuse of aid by corrupt regimes, increasing gap between rich and poor), and assess their effectiveness
Sample questions: “What criteria were used by the federal and Ontario governments to justify bailing out auto manufacturers in 2009? What criteria would you have used? How would you evaluate the 2009 bailouts?”
E2.4 describe ways in which individuals and groups attempt to address problems related to international economic activities (e.g., child labour, environmental degradation, human rights violations, copyright violations, poor working conditions), and assess their effectiveness
Sample questions: “How effective do you think boycotts are in term of changing business practices? Do you think the use of social media can improve the effectiveness of boycotts or buycotts?” “How effective do you think Idle No More or other indigenous movements have been in raising awareness about the erosion on a global scale of environmental protection of publicly held and/or managed resources?”
E3. International Economic Power and Inequality
FOCUS ON: Cause and Effect; Economic Perspective
By the end of this course, students will:
E3.1 analyse data on global economic disparities and explain the main causes and effects of economic marginalization (e.g., causes: illiteracy, gender inequality, colonial legacies, capitalism, lack
of natural resources, private control or ownership of natural resources, lack of infrastructure, lack of access to markets in developed countries; effects: imbalance of power, high infant and maternal mortality rates, lower life expectancy, homelessness or substandard housing, lack of access to education and health care, hunger, social conflict)
Sample questions: “When you analyse data on international economic disparity, what patterns do you notice?” “What criteria would you use to rank the causes of global economic disparities?” “How do the effects of economic marginalization contribute to its perpetuation?”
E3.2 assess responses to economic disparity
by various intergovernmental organizations (e.g., United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization [UNESCO], United Nations Development Fund for Women [UNIFEM], United Nations Development Programme, World Health Organization, International Monetary Fund [IMF], World Bank)
Sample questions: “Why does UNIFEM advocate extending more microcredit to women in low-income countries? Do you think these microcredit programs are effective? Why
or why not?” “What are the Millennium Development Goals? What progress has been made with respect to these goals? Have some seen more progress than others?”
E3.3 explain how various social movements
and social justice organizations address global economic inequality, and assess their effectiveness (e.g., with reference to Make Poverty History,
the International Labour Organization, the Third World Network; Occupy, antiglobalization, environmental, indigenous rights, seed-saving, fair-trade, feminist, anti–child labour movements)
Sample questions: “In what ways are responses of social justice organizations to global economic inequality different from those of the IMF? Which do you think are more effective? Why?”
GLOBAL INTERDEPENDENCE AND INEQUALITIES
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Analysing Current Economic Issues
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