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AIM: WHY DOES DEVELOPMENT
VARY BETWEEN COUNTRIES?
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Socially
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Human Development Index
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A country’s level of development can be
distinguished according to three factors –
social, economic, and demographic.
The Human Development Index (HDI),
created by the United Nations, recognizes
that a country’s level of development is a
function of all three of these factors.
Human Development Index (HDI)
Four factors are combined to produce country’s HDI
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GDP (gross domestic product) per capita
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Literacy rate
Amount of education
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Life expectancy
Can you name the top 3
countries with the highest HDI?
United States: Can you guess...
 Life Expectancy
 Average years of schooling
HDI 2014
ECONOMIC MEASURE
Gross Domestic Product (GDP): value of the total
output of goods and services produces in a country,
normally during a year
GDP per capita  Dividing GDP by total population
measures contribution made by the average
individual toward generating a country’s wealth
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GDP UNITED STATES
GDP = $12 trillion
 Population = 300 million
 GDP per capita = $40,000
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Measures average (mean) wealth, not
distribution. Cannot perfectly measure
level of development
SOCIAL INDICATORS
level of development, the greater are both the
quantity and quality of education
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Quantity: average number of school years attended
Quality: student/teacher ratio and literacy rate
Literacy rate: percentage of a country’s
people who can read and write
Education MDCs vs. LDCs
Average pupil attends school for about
10 years in MDCs vs. couple years in
LDCs
 Student-teacher ratio is twice as high in
LDCs as in MDCs
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DEMOGRAPHIC INDICATORS
Life Expectancy: average number of years
a newborn infant can be expected to live
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LDCs – 60s
MDCs – 70s
Other Factors the Determine
Development of Countries
ECONOMIC FACTORS
Types of Jobs (primary, secondary, tertiary)
 Productivity (gross value of product minus
cost of raw materials and energy)
 Raw Materials
 Consumer goods
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SOCIAL FACTORS
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Health and Welfare
DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS
Infant Mortality Rate
 Natural Increase Rate
 Crude Birth Rate
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AIM: WHERE ARE MORE AND LESS
DEVELOPED COUNTRIES?
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REGIONS OF THE WORLD
MORE DEVELOPED
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Anglo America
Western Europe
Eastern Europe
Japan
South Pacific
LESS DEVELOPED
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Latin America
East Asia
Middle East
Southeast Asia
South Asia
Sub-Saharan Africa
AIM: WHERE DOES LEVEL OF
DEVELOPMENT VARY BY GENDER?
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Gender-Related Development Index
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Compares the level of development of
women with that of both sexes
Gender Empowerment Measure
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Compares ability of women and men to
participate in economic and political
decision making
Gender-Related Development Index
(GDI)
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Uses the same indicators as HDI
 Income
 Literacy
 Education
 Life
expectancy
High GDI means both men and women have
achieved a high level of development
 Low GDI means that women have a low level
of development
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Global Gender Gap Report 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llj7LzTUL
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Gender-Related Development Index
(GDI)
ECONOMIC INDICATOR
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Average income for females is lower than
males in every country in the world
Gender-Related Development Index
(GDI)
SOCIAL INDICATOR
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Education & Literacy
 Women
less likely to attend schools in LDCs
 Gap is especially high in secondary level
 Women:Men 99:100 in MDCs, 60:100 LDCs
Gender-Related Development Index
(GDI)
SOCIAL INDICATOR
 LDCs
 Sub-Saharan
Africa & Middle East fewer than
one-third of girls attend school
 In Latin America and Asia, boys and girls are
equally likely but attendance is much less
than in MDCs
Gender-Related Development Index
(GDI)
DEMOGRAPHIC INDICATOR
 Life expectancy
 Gender
gap greater in MDCs than LDCs
 Women expected to live longer in MDCs
Fostering Gender Equality & Empowerment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxECHRlr
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Gender Empowerment
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GEM measures the ability of women to participate
in the process of achieving those improvements
two indicators of economic power
income
 professional jobs
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two indicators of political power
managerial jobs
 elected jobs
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Gender Empowerment
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Countries with the highest GEMS are MDCs,
especially in North America, Northern Europe
and South Pacific
Interactive Gender Gap Map
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http://widgets.weforum.org/gender-gap-heatmap/
Malala
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjGL6YY6o
Ms&feature=youtu.be
He for She Campaign
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZptgM-jhZo
AIM: WHY DO LESS
DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
FACE OBSTACLES TO
DEVELOPMENT?
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To reduce disparities between rich
and poor countries, LDCs must
develop more rapidly.
Increasing per capita GDP more rapidly
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Using additional funds to make more
rapid improvements in people’s social and
economic conditions
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Two Obstacles
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Adopting policies that successfully
promote development
Finding funds to pay for development
Promote Development
One of two ways to promote development
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Self-Sufficiency
International Trade
Finding Funds
One of two ways to find funds
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Loans from banks and international
organizations
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Direct investment by transnational
corporations
Rostow Model
http://www.slideshare.net/geographyallthewa
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