The World Today

The World Today

1. Disadvantages

   • Urban and demographic problems
   • Migrations
   • International conflicts

2. Globalisation

   • Since the end of the XX century
   • What happened?
     • an economic problem
     • A techcnological process
     • A cultural process
     • A social process
   • Characteristics
     • Countries are becoming interrelated
       • because their cultures, economies, societies and politics
         • are charming and becoming similar
     • Expansion of capitalism
     • The economic system: free market
       • Along with the technological revolution
   • Types
     • Economic
       • High mobility of workers, raw materials and capital
       • concentration of wealth, instability and inequality
       • decision-making power transferred from states to large private companies
       • production relocated to other countries and increase in power for multinationals
       • Unemployment and loss of purchasing power
     • Scientific and technological
       • communications
       • high technology

3. Conflicts

   • In the 21th century
   • Causes
     • Economic differences
     • Unresolved conflicts relating to other periods of history
     • Religious or cultural intolerance
   • Consequences
     • terrorism
     • Geopolitical tensions
     • civil problems
     • wars between nations
     • Territorial disputes

4. Migrations

   • Causes
     • natural
       • catastrophes
       • force local populations to leave their homes
     • political
       • conflicts and political crises disturb a country and force
       • The emigrants leave their countries, they are called exiles
     • Socieconomic
       • emigrants seek a better quality of life in terms of health, educations and employment
   • Types
     • forced
     • voluntary
     • temporary
     • permanent

5. Urban problems

   • cities provide their inhabitants with several advantages
   • consecuentes
     • supplies and waste management
     • social segregation
     • housing
     • environmental degradation
   • cause
     • the constant growth

6. Population

   • based of the classification
   • by united nation
     • Developed
     • developing
   • Characteristics
     • birth rates
     • death rates
     • life expectancy
     • natural population growth