the development gap

the development gap

1. categorising countries

   • Brandt report
     • not a true division because of Australia
     • north-south divide
     • biased
     • 1981
     • simpler
   • first second and third world (fourth added later)
     • unreliable
       • boundaries unclear
     • biased
     • earliest method
     • first- richest. second-middle. third-poorest.
   • 5 fold division
     • the divisions
       • rich industrialising
       • oil exporting
       • newly industrialising countries
       • former centrally planned goverment
       • heavily endebted
     • complex
     • more detailed
     • clearer, less biased
     • includes history of countries
     • specific

2. how to measure development

   • access to clean water
   • life expectancy
   • HDI (human development index)
   • birth rate
   • death rate
   • food consumption
   • literacy rate
   • infant mortality rate
   • doctor-patient ratio
   • GNP (gross national product)
   • GNI (gross national income)

3. limitations of using one development measure

   • they are an average so don't show huge variation in a country
   • economic measures give no indication towards living standards
   • some give narrow and confusing pictures
   • many countries have a low death rate now so isn't very reliable

4. Haiti earth quake

   • 12/1/10
   • $14 billion of damage
   • 230,000 killed 300,000 injured
   • around 1 million people were left homless
   • 50% of schools were destroyed
   • 99 hospitals were destroyed
   • roads and railways were unusable because of hug cracks in the road and bends in the tracks
   • 90,000 people left jobless
   • 7 on the Richter scale