Social Indicators of Development
The main social indicators of development include education, health, employment rates and gender equality.
Indicators of development
Indicators of development
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What are the Most Useful Indicators of Development?
You need to use a range of economic and social indicators to get a full picture of how developed a country is….
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Globalisation and Global Development: Good Resources
Some useful links to good teaching resources for Globalisation and Global Development. Good resources providing an overview of global trends
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Assess the View that Economic Indicators Provide an Unsatisfactory Picture of Development
Economic definitions and ways of measuring development are unsatisfactory. A much clearer and more useful picture emerges when wider social
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Using material from item A, analyse two reasons why Gross National Product may not be sufficient to measure a country’s level of development (10)
Applying material from the item analyse (ten mark) questions appear with an item as the second question on section B
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The Millennium Development Goals – How Much Progress was Made?
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were adopted by 189 nations during the UN Millennium Summit in September 2000. Eight MDGs
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The Human Development Index
The United Nations uses The Human Development Index (HDI) as a summary measure for assessing long-term progress in three basic
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Economic Indicators of Development
International organisations such as the World Bank prefer to measure development using economic indicators. There are three main economic indicators
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Defining ‘Development’
International development professionals categorise countries into ‘more’ or ‘less’ developed. This post explores the meanings and origins of these terms,
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America – A Less Developed Country?
The United States ranks either at the top, or very near the top on several of the main development indicators used