Increasing development- Stages and goals

• Rostow's model:

  • Shows the five stages of development
  • Predicts how a country's level of development changes overtime

  A) lots of trade

  B) economy grows

  C) rapid growth

  D) international trading begins

  E) subsistence based

  
• Millennium development goals (MDGs):

  • MDGs are aimed to improve life in LIDCs
  • They were targets set by the United nations (UN) in 2000 to achieve by 2015
  • By 2015, the UN had gone some way to achieving the goals and success was varied
  • The UN then created sustainable development goals (SDGs) to achieve by 2030
• The eight MDGs:

  1. Halve the number of people living in extreme poverty or suffering from hunger.
  2. Make sure all people had a primary education.
  3. Increase the number of girls and women in education and paid employment.
  4. Reduce death rates in children under 5 years old by two-thirds.
  5. Reduce death rates amongst women caused by pregnancy/childbirth by three-quarters.
  6. Stop the spread of major diseases including HIV/AIDS and malaria.
  7. Protect the environment and make sure development is sustainable.
  8. Make sure all countries around the world work together to help LIDCs develop.