1. Chapter 2: What Do You Know of the World?

2.  A country’s level of development can be measured in a variety of ways – social development (the level of education, health care, jurisprudence, life expectancy, and rate of infant mortality in a society).  Economic development is a community’s material wealth and trade and is shown by such measures as the per capita GDP.

3.  Developed/Underdeveloped Worlds - doesn’t distinguish between economic and non-economic development.  Developed/Developing Worlds – recognizes the fact that countries typically become more developed over time.  North-South – see Fig 2-2 on p.21.

4.  First/Second/Third World – Capitalist countries, communist countries, and “South” countries.  Developed/Newly Industrializing/Developing

5.  First World – highest level of socioeconomic development (ie: Canada, Japan)  Second World – are or were communist (ie: Cuba, China, Russia)  Third World – well advanced in the transition to development (ie: Brazil, Mexico)  Fourth World – early stages of transition to being developed (ie: India, Indonesia)  Fifth World – little evidence of starting the transition towards development (Ie: Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Haiti).