Causes & Consequences of uneven development

• Development: a process of positive change which improves the wealth and quality of like of people
• Development Gap: the difference in standards of living between the rich and poor
• Development Continuum: a scale where countries can move up or down

  • HICs
  • Upper Middle Income Countries
  • Lower Middle Income Countries
  • LICs

  
• Measuring development: GNI/GDP, birth/death rate, literacy rate, infant mortality, access to clean water, life expectancy etc
• The world is unevenly developed due to human factors (war, political instability) and physical (climate, relief, natural hazards)
• Economic Development: the result of increased employment and rising incomes

  Social Development: the result of increasing life expectancies and greater access to education, healthcare, etc

  Political Development: the formation of stable governments and greater freedom of speech