The Development Gap
- Created by: rachel cantwell
- Created on: 08-04-14 18:34
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- The Development Gap
- The widening difference in level of development between the world's richest and poorest countries.
- Measuring the gap
- GDP
- GDP is used to classify countries as more developed and less developed
- GNI
- GDP
- The North/South Divide
- The Brandt line
- A boundary line seperating the 'rich north' and the 'poor line'
- The Brandt line
- Human Development
- The UN argues that development is about improving people's social as well as economic wellbeing
- Therefore recently there have been more indicators of development that focus on social factors
- Literacy rate
- Life expectancy
- People per doctor
- Infant mortality rate
- Internet usage
- HDI was developed by the UN
- Based on three factors
- life expectancy
- Literacy rate
- GDP per capita
- A number is given that ranges from 0 (least developed) to 1 (most developed)
- Based on three factors
- Therefore recently there have been more indicators of development that focus on social factors
- The UN argues that development is about improving people's social as well as economic wellbeing
- Possible reasons for the gap
- Poverty Cycle
- Hunger and poor sanitation
- Disease, malnutrition and death
- Depleted workforce
- Economic decline
- Low personal income
- Less access to safe water
- Hunger and poor sanitation
- Disease, malnutrition and death
- Depleted workforce
- Economic decline
- Low personal income
- Less access to safe water
- Less access to safe water
- Low personal income
- Economic decline
- Depleted workforce
- Disease, malnutrition and death
- Hunger and poor sanitation
- Less access to safe water
- Low personal income
- Economic decline
- Depleted workforce
- Disease, malnutrition and death
- Hunger and poor sanitation
- Debt
- Many poor countries have accepted loans from rich countries
- Interest payments on the loans affect development as they put pressure on the already stretched financial situation of a country.
- The debt crisis largely concerns the poorest regions, causing even more hardship to their people and preventing the development gap closing.
- Poverty Cycle
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