Revise

This week you will revise global variations in economic development (as part of The Changing Economic World unit). It would help if you covered the following:

• Different ways of classifying parts of the world according to their level of economic development and quality of life.
• What does world development look like?
• Social measures of development and their limitations  birth and death rates, infant mortality, life expectancy, people per doctor, literacy rates, access to safe water,
• Economic measures of development and their limitation gross national income (GNI) per head,
• Human development index
• Link between stages of the Demographic Transition Model and the level of development.
• Causes of uneven development: physical, economic and historical.
• Consequences of uneven development: disparities in wealth and health, international migration.
• An overview of the strategies used to reduce the development gap: investment, industrial development and tourism, aid, using intermediate technology, fairtrade, debt relief, microfinance loans.
• An example of how the growth of tourism in an LIC or NEE helps to reduce the development gap – Jamaica | Tunisia

Use one of the four strategies below to revise these areas.