Factors affecting development

• There human and physical factors which affect development
• 4 physical factors affecting development

  • poor climate
  • few natural resources
  • natural hazards
  • poor location
• climate

  poor climate means not much crop will grow, reducing the amount of food produced, which can lead to malnutrition. it also means there are fewer crops to sell, so less money is generated

  overall, because less crops are sold, the government gets less money from taxes, meaning there’s less to spend on developing the country
• natural resources

  countries without many raw materials have less to sell, meaning they have less money for development

  some countries do have a lot of raw materials but dont have the money to develop he infrastructure to exploit them, and stay poor
• location

  landlocked countries find it harder and more expensive to trade/export products
• natural hazards

  more money is spent on mitigating and rebuilding after natural disasters
• there are 8 human factors influencing development

  • conflict
  • debt
  • politics
  • trade
  • education
  • tourism
  • aid
  • disease and healthcare
• Conflict

  War means more money is spent on arms and fighting instead of development and people are killed, reducing the population, and infrastructure is damaged

  Countries have to spend money on repairing this
• debt

  money is spent on repaying debt rather than developing the country
• politics

  corrupt governments hinder development by taking money thats intended for development. they may also prevent a fair election from happening, so it is hard for them to lose their positions

  if a government is unstable, countries wont want to invest or trade with it
• trade

  this is the exchange of goods and services

  countries that export more than their import have a trade surplus whereas the opposite is a trade deficit, which means that less money is coming in than its going out, so its poorer.
• education

  more educated people provide a more skilled workforce, so they can produce more goods and offer more services

  they also earn more, so they can pay more taxes, which can be spent on developing the country
• tourism

  provide more income
• disease and healthcare

  lack of clean water and poor healthcare means that more suffer from disease, and they can’t work, so dont contribute to the economy

  more money needs to be spent on treating them, and less on developing the country as a whole
• aid

  aid is help given by one country to another

  if a country relies on aid it might stop them from developing trade links