IB Geography Patterns and Change

Ban on women drivers in Saudi

useful example

Article about regional differences within Italy, North v South, development of the country.

The rapid growth of China's economy over the past three decades has been greeted with largely unquestioned assumptions that increasing affluence would lead to a happier, wealthier and more equitable society. Of course, such assumptions came with an implicit acceptance that some would get rich faster, but also that these benefits would eventually trickle down.

Disparities between rural and urban China are growing

Anti Natalist Policy - Sterilisation = New Car.

An estimated 11.2 million undocumented immigrants live in the US, including 120,000 in Alabama, most of whom work in backbreaking agricultural jobs under the hot southern sun. In two months, the harsh new immigration law takes effect in the state, aimed in part at making life so difficult for illegal immigrants they will quit the state.

Would make a good IB trip to have a look at this exhibit. London based.

This report from the Global Campaign for Education is entitled "Back to School?  The Worst Places in the World to Be a School Child 2010." [Submitted by John Jordan]

Australia offers Sydney residents cash to move

Why some Kenyan communities are resisting devleopment