1. Development

2. What is Development?

3. What is Development?
Development is a measure of how rich or poor a country is.
Rich countries are more economically more developed
Poor countries are said to be economically less developed
Development is not just about wealth, however. It is about growth and progress, and about using resources and technology to improve the quality of life for people.
Countries can be culturally, demographically, socially, politically or economically developed.

4. Countries According to the size of their GDP

5. The World Divided
The Brandt Line

6. Measuring Development

7. How can development be measured?
Task: Brainstorm 10 ways in which you could measure development
Extension:
Which do you think is the most common measure of development- why?

8. How can development be measured?
Task:
Complete card sort of measures of development.
2. Rank cards in order of importance.

9. How can development be measured?
Task: Brainstorm 10 ways in which you could measure development
Extension:
Which do you think is the most common measure of development- why?

10. Other ways of measuring development
Corruption perception index
Women and development
The human development index

11. P 204 Explain the scale used

12. Women and Development

21. Calculating the HDI:
The HDI for any country is calculated using three variables:
Income- measured by GDP per capita
Knowledge- measured by adult literacy and the % of children attending school.
Longevity-measured by life expectancy at birth.

22. This map shows Human Development Index (HDI) for 169 countries