Introduction To Development

DevelopmentWhat is it?

What are the challenges?

Per Capita Gross National Product

• United States & Japan = + $27,000• U.K. & Germany = $23,000-27,000• Italy & Australia = $15,000-23,000• Brazil & Mexico = $3,500-6,000• China & Romania = $500-1,000

• India & Mali = < $500

Obstacles to Development

• Population Growth• Geography/Natural Resources• Education/Technology• Religion• External Debt• Corruption• War and It’s Aftermath

Population Growth The challenge of the future is a

balance between: the rights of the individual vs. the sustainability of the planet. What are the specific rights of the individual that are involved? What are the pressures put on the planet?

Map 17 of 76World Map: Political with Infant Mortality Rate

Map 18 of 76World Map: Political with Life Expectancy

Geography/ Natural Resources

• Draw a map of the world.• Shade the areas that you believe are the

developed areas of the world.

• Choose five major economic powers.

Group of 8

Group of 77

Map 12 of 76World Map: Political with Annual Precipitation

Education/ Technology

Importance Challenges

• Limited educated elite• Limited money• Children must work

Political with Percentage of Labor Force in Agriculture

Political with Literacy Rate

Religion – Is development a Western concept and goal?

• Hinduism

• Buddhism

• Judeo-Christian

• Islam

External Debt

In 1970 In 2002$25 b. (world’s 60 poorest) $523b.$11b. (Africa) $295b.

Budgets of the World Mali = $1.8 b. (‘06) Nigeria = $30.6 b.

(‘08)Angola = $27.1 b. China = $868 b.New York City = $60 b. (‘07) Montana = $4.7 b.

Countries In the Red• Bulgaria• Cameroon• Ivory Coast• Ethiopia

• Honduras• Jordan• Madagascar• Syria • Tanzania

Sudan and Zambia = 2x

Angola = 3x