KQ 1 WHta is development and what is the development gap?
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- KQ 1 - What is the development and what is the development gap?
- Development is difficult to define as it has a wide range of meanings
- Variety of different ways by different people and organisations
- Improvements to wealth e.g. health, wealth and education
- Conservation and sustainable use of environement and economy
- Quality of Life and well-being
- World Bank: 'development is increased and distribution of wealth
- Socialists - 'freedom from want'
- Exam Board: - 'progressive improvements in standards of living for an increasing proportion of the population
- Economic growth lead to......
- Doesn't mean country is developing, so you have an economy and wealth without development
- Links to the the Development Cable
- Cultural
- Demographic
- Social
- Political
- Environmental
- Links to the the Development Cable
- Doesn't mean country is developing, so you have an economy and wealth without development
- Variety of different ways by different people and organisations
- 'The Development Gap is the increasing inequality in levels of development between countries and geographic regions'
- Richest 20% of countries in the world consume 80% of available resources
- Disparities within countries
- LEDCs = worst income
- Classification of Countries
- BRANDT REPORT (1980)
- Social & economic
- Willy Brandt - 'former West German Chancellor'
- North = Rich
- South = Poor
- Links to Neo-colonilism
- Traditional Classiffication
- 1st, 2nd and 3rd World
- Outdated from the Cold War & WWII
- 1st World = Demographic and Industrialised
- 2nd World = Communist-social
- 3rd World = Not Aligned to anything (just the rest of them)
- Development Pathways
- LEDCs no longer whole group
- LLEDC, LEDC, RIC, OPEC, NIC, MEDC
- 1st, 2nd and 3rd World
- Other Classification
- BRIC's (2001)
- Brazil, Russia, India & China
- Emerging markets, demographic and economic have the most influence
- 2.8 billion people live within BRIC's
- Combined GDP of US$16.039
- Brazil, Russia, India & China
- MINT's
- Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria & Turkey
- Will be the new BRIC's - take over the BRIC's
- More economically active
- Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria & Turkey
- BRIC's (2001)
- BRANDT REPORT (1980)
- Changing over time......
- 70's --Previous focus = economic (GDP/ Brandt)
- Social and human (HDI)
- Equal Opportunities, basic needs, eliminates of poverty
- 80's Awareness sustainable and environment problems
- Brandt (1987) 'Development meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations in respect of the poor'
- HPI - Happy Planet Index
- Spatically within countries
- Within Cities.....
- Urban V Rural
- Urban area's in LEDC's have better service and more opportunities and between sectors of the population
- Women
- Less likely to get a paid job and have a lower earnings and have limited participation in parlimentary positions and less liekly to be educated and literate
- Development is difficult to define as it has a wide range of meanings
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