How the Development Gap can be measured
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- How the Development Gap can be measured
- Gross Domestic Product
- Total value of good and services produced by a country in a year.
- Does not take into account the way in which the cost of living may vary between countries
- Also only average figures which do not tell the way in which wealth is distributed within a country or how the government invests the money it has
- Human Development Index (HDI)
- Measures life expectancy, educational attainment and GDP per capita.
- These are converted into an index which has a max value of 1.0
- Gender related development index (GDI)
- measurement of overall achievement for both men and women in the 3 factors measured in the HDI
- Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
- established in 2000 to reduce global poverty substantially by 2015.
- Measurement of progress is based on 1990 figures.
- Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
- Achieve universally primary education
- Promote gender equality
- Reduce child mortality
- Improve maternal health
- Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
- Ensure environmental sustainability
- Develop a global partnership for development
- Development Cable
- Identified that in order for a country to develop there are key developmental factors that interact.
- The outer stands are the outcomes of development and are integral to development
- Gross Domestic Product
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