1. Measuring and Assessing Development
Project 1

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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 In 2000, the world population was billion. Today, we are one billion more and about 80% of the world population lives in developing countries.

5. The 8 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are

6. 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 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

7. Assessing and evaluating the success /the failure of the MDG
MDG What we met and missed

8. 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.

9. Don’t forget to indicate the sources you actually used!
Don’t forget to indicate the sources you actually used!