Why are poor countries poor?

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Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid

Prague

05/02/2016 - 00:00

Description

Why did Europe become the wealthiest region in the world? A simple question with a tricky answer

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Speech Details

Language

(en) English

Speech number: 25974

Duration

13:30

Level

Intermediate

Use

Simultaneous

Domains

General

Terminology

wealth, European settlers, colonialism, to emigrate, technological innovation, patents, boomerang, rain forest, civilization, gunpowder, to leap ahead, coal, temperate climate, institutions, moderate climate, Amazon, tropics, malaria, aborigines, exploitation, slavery, global village, to be cut off

Notes

A long speech to build up stamina