Global Development

Global Development

1. Development Is normally seen as a positive change.

2. 2 Types of Development

   • Economic Development: measured by Gross National Product ( the total value of goods & services produced in a country in a year.)
     • Economic Indicators: GDP AND GNI
   • Social Development: refers to the improvement of the standards of living, education, life expectancy, health,gender improvement etc.
     • Social Indicators: The Millennium Goals, The human development Index

3. Classifying developed and undeveloped

   • First world - The industrialized capitalist world, e.g the USA, Western Europe, Japan, Australia& New zealand.
     • Second World- The industrialized communist world- The Soviet Union & The Eastern Europe
       • Third World - The rest of the world

4. Two criticisms of this system of classification

   • The categories are too general, where the third world is hugely diverse.
     • Implicit assumption is that Western, non- communist, industriiallised countries are better.