Measuring and Assessing Development Project 1

For a country/region (eg For a country/region (eg. Eastern Asia) of your choice, you have to measure the level of development and to assess if the Millennium Development Goals have been achieved there.

PART 1: MEASURING DEVELOPMENT Copy the table we completed in class with usual “development indicators” and fill it in with the data for your country/region. Add the population (number of inhabitants). Don’t forget to give the date and the source. According to the data, draw a short conclusion on the level of development of your country regarding the economic and the human development. You have to assess if your country is a MEDC or a LEDC or a LDC.

PART 2: ASSESSING DEVELOPMENT PROGRESS / The Millennium Development Goals In September 2000, leaders from all 189 United Nations member states at the time (there are 193 currently) and at least 23 international organizations agreed on a vision for the future and committed to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3p2VLTowAA In 2000, the world population was 6.127 billion. Today, we are one billion more and about 80% of the world population lives in developing countries.

The 8 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are

The goals are supported by 21 specific targets, which progress can be measured thanks to more than 60 indicators. GOALS AND TARGETS Indicators Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women Target 4: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005,and in all levels of education no later than 2015 Goal 4:Reduce child mortality Target 5: Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015,the under-five mortality rate 9 . Ratio of girls to boys in primary, secondary and tertiary education 10. Ratio of literate females to males of 15-24 year olds 11. Share of women in wage employment in the non-agricultural sector 12. Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament 13. Under-five mortality rate 14. Infant mortality rate 15. Proportion of 1 year old children immunised against measles

Assessing and evaluating the success /the failure of the MDG MDG What we met and missed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5giOGjj5X8

Part 2: Questions For the country/region of your choice, evaluate: which goal(s) and target(s) have been achieved the level of progress in development (obvioulsy, this level of progress should be bigger for a LEDC than for a MEDC) which goals are still not achieved and explain why. 2. Suggest, at least, two (realistic) solutions to meet these goals by short-term time.

Don’t forget to indicate the sources you actually used! http://data.worldbank.org/country http://www.statistiques-mondiales.com http://mdgs.un.org http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/policy/untaskteam_undf/UNTT_MonitoringReport_WEB.pdf Don’t forget to indicate the sources you actually used!