Development Dilemmas

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What is development?

Use the following cartoons and images to discuss and write down in your books what your definition

of development is

How do you define development?

What is this satellite image showing?

The Brandt Line

In terms of development the world can be divided in two halves

The Rich North

The Poor South

The North South divide?

• This divide is also called the ‘Brandt Line’.• The Brandt Report was published in 1980 to highlight thegrowing gap in social and economic development betweenthe developed and less developed countries of the world.• The report was complied by an independent group ofstatesmen headed by Herr Willy Brandt, the former WestGerman Chancellor.• The report concluded that ‘The North’ and ‘The South’were mutually dependent upon each other, and it warnedagainst ‘The North’ establishing economic barriers againstthe growing industrialisation of ‘The South’.

What problems does the Brandt line have?

Fails to show disparity or differences in poverty WITHIN a country

Core region - based on the urban area, has the majority of the services, business and people

Periphery is rural - remote countryside involved in producing raw materials = poor

How can development be measured?

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• Make a list of the different ways we can measure development.

Measuring Development

• Life expectancy at birth

• Infant mortality rate

• Number of people per doctor

• Literacy rate

• Number of deaths/births per 1,000

• GDP per capita

True or false

• The HDI measures, life expectancy, education and health.

• Countries with a high HDI are all in the Northern hemisphere

• The Brandt line is an accutate way to divide wealthy countries from poor countries