1. DEVELOPMENT Development implies progress. In today’s world, this implies progress is being made in technology, production, and socioeconomic welfare (quality of life.)

3. Geographer’s Perspective of World Economies Geographers are interested in the distribution of wealth in the world today. –What are the patterns of wealth worldwide? –Why is wealth distributed in the manner that it is? –What can be done to improve the wealth of the poorer countries?

5. Gdp per capita

6. population

7. Keys to development include commercial energy consumption

9. An important factor in measuring development is PPP (purchasing power parity per capita.) Monetary measurement which take account of what money actually buys in each country

10. Measures of development: caloric intake

11. Measure of development: Percentage of people working in agriculture

12. Rubenstein textbook splits education level into literacy and education level Village of 100

13. Based on what you know, rank the five richest and five poorest countries in the world.

14. Human development indicators HIGH HUMAN DEVELOPMENT - 2009 1 Iceland 2 Norway 3 Australia 4 Canada 5 Ireland 6 Sweden 7 Switzerland 8 Japan 0.861 9 Netherlands 10 France 11 Finland 12 United States 13 Spain 14 Denmark 15 Austria 16 United Kingdom 17 Belgium 18 Luxembourg 19 New Zealand 20 Italy 21 Hong Kong, China (SAR) 22 Germany.. 23 Israel 24 Greece 25 Singapore Based on gdp per capita, literacy, level of education, and life expectancy

15. 160 Guinea 161 Rwanda 162 Angola 163 Benin 164 Malawi 165 Zambia 166 Côte d’Ivoire 167 Burundi 168 Congo (Democratic Republic of the) 169 Ethiopia 170 Chad 171 Central African Republic 172 Mozambique 173 Mali 174 Niger 175 Guinea-Bissau 176 Burkina Faso 177 Sierra Leone 178 South Sudan Notable Countries: Nigeria – 158 Haiti – 146 Pakistan – 136 India – 128 Palestinian “territories” 106 Israel - 23 Russia 67 Mexico 52 Brazil – 70 China – 81 Jamaica - 101

16. Geography and development How many former colonies have become developed countries?

17. Understanding development in context of scale. A matter of local, regional, and global scale. Local and regional societies were disrupted by colonialism. Colonies became a source for resources and a captive market.

18. The historical pivot of development by today’s standards would be… The Industrial Revolution and colonialism made colonies dependent on colonizers and brought wealth to colonizers at the expense of colonies.

19. The poor countries are still experiencing “neo- colonialism” today. Many economic theories state that economic disparities are built into the world economic system.

20. Non economic factors of development: sanitation

21. Lack of clean water retards the ability of many countries to improve their standard of living.

23. Non-economic aspects of development

24. Non economic factors of development: health services

25. Development and IKEA