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Chapter 9-Development
A country’s level of development is
categorized according to 3 factors:
Economic
Social
Demographic
Human Development Index (HDI)created by United Nations &
recognizes a country’s level of
development
Key Issue 3-Where does level
of Development Vary by Gender
Use your graphic organizers and
follow along:
GEM
Gender Related Development Index
Economic Indicator for Gender
Differences.
Social Indicators
Demographic Indicators
Key Issue 3-Continued
Gender Empowerment
Economic Indicators of Empowerment
Political Indicators of Empowerment
Key Issue 4-Why do LDCs Face
Obstacles to Development?
Problems with Self Sufficiency
Rostow’s Development Model
Four Asian Tigers
Petroleum Rich Arabian Peninsula
States
Problems with International Trade
Alternative
WTO
Key Issue 4-continued
Transnational corporations
Loans
Structural Adjustment Programs
Fair Trade
Fair Trade Producer Standards
Fair Trade Worker Standards
HDI (continued)
To create HDI the UN selects 1
economic factor, 2 social factors, & 1
demographic factor that an
international team determines a
country’s level of development.
Economic-gross domestic product
Social-literacy rate & amount of
education
Demographic-life expectancy
HDI-continued
Country with highest HDI-Norway
US is usually in top 10
Canada & Japan were higher than Norway
in 90s
Other European countries typically in top
10
Lowest ranked country Sierra Leone
2 dozen lowest ranking countries from subSaharan Africa
Gross Domestic Product
GDP-value of the total output of
goods & services produced in a
country, normally during a year
GDP higher in MDC than LDC
Per capita GDP measures average
wealth
Types of Jobs
Average per capita is higher in MDCs
because people earn their living by
different means than in LDCs
Jobs fall into 3 categories: primary,
secondary, tertiary
Primary sector-workers in this sector
directly extract materials from Earth
through agriculture, mining, fishing, &
forestry
Types of Jobs (continued)
Secondary sector includes manufacturers
that process, transform, & assemble raw
materials into useful products. Other
secondary sector industries take
manufactured goods and make them into
finished consumer goods
Tertiary sector-involves taking goods &
services to people in exchange for
payment. Includes retailing, banking, law,
education, and government
Quarternary and Quinary Sector
Quarternary-jobs in business services
such as trade, insurance, banking,
advertising, wholesaling
Quinary-health, education, research,
government, retailing, tourism, &
recreation