Dev gap

• Development gap 


  refers to the widening difference in levels of development between the world's richest and poorest countries
• When describing a trend in HDI scores:

  1. trend, e.g. most countries in the northern hemisphere have a high HDI
  2. For example e.g. the USA has a score of 0.9, UK and Canada as well
  3. anomaly or analysis , e.g. this means that these countries must have a high literacy rate and have high GNI and lots of people are in education
• To improve quality of life in LICs , must reduce the development gap 


  To do this, LICs need to:

  • grow the economy (economic)
  • Invest in people and social care (social)
  • Protect the environment (environmental)