All NAFTA, all the time!

Starter 9:  World Poverty Rates

Region	Percentage of people living on less than $1.25 per day[36]
	1981	2008
East Asia and Pacific	77.2%	14.3%
Europe and Central Asia	1.9%	0.5%
Latin America and the Caribbean	11.9%	6.5%
Middle East and North Africa	9.6%	2.7%
South Asia	61.1%	36%
Sub-Saharan Africa	51.5%	47.5%
World	52.2%	22.4%

1.    ^ "Regional aggregation using 2005 PPP and $1.25 per day poverty line". The World Bank. 2011.

1. What are 2 trends you notice here?  Explain.

2. You’ll notice that the global poverty rate was cut in half between 1981 and 2008.  What are at least two possible explanations for this dramatic decrease?  Explain your reasoning thoroughly!

NAFTA Background Information

• Who:  Mexico, Canada, USA (Chile added in 1997)
• When:  1994
• Why:  Increase trade between these countries
• How:
• Tariffs:  Reduces tariffs (taxes) on good shipped from one country to another.  US exports to Mexico have gone up because of this.
• Immigration and Travel:  Makes transporting of goods across borders easier, allows some immigration for work under a special kind of visa.
• Labeling:  Goods shipped into a country must have labels in the language of that country (French for Canada, English for US, Spanish for Mexico)
• Controversies:
• Job loss
• Environmental Regulations
• National Autonomy

NAFTA Documents

1. Review Historical Thinking Skills
2. Going to use some historical thinking skills to evaluate some documents about NAFTA, so that you can draw your own conclusions.  Our process will be:
1. Guided practice, where I’ll model for you how to read these documents, and we’ll analyze the first document as a class
2. Independent work, where you analyze 3 other documents on your own
3. Final Synthesis, where you come up with your final opinion on NAFTA

NAFTA Work

Work through the documents listed below using the document analysis packet. 

• NAFTA Documents
• NAFTA Document Analysis

HOMEWORK

NONE!  We'll finish up the NAFTA stuff in class tomorrow.