LEARNING OUTCOMES
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ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
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Economist Jeffrey Sachs, the former head of the United Nations Millennium Project, believes that there are two reasons why global population and extreme poverty occur where they do: 1) capitalism distributes wealth to nations better than socialism or communism; 2) geography is a major factor in population distribution in relationship to wealth. For example, population tends to be lower in extreme environments such as arid climates, rainforests, polar or mountainous regions. Another example is a nation that has a large body of water within its borders, or has large minerals deposits/resources is likely to have more wealth and population.
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