chapter 2: what do you know of the world?. a country’s level of development can be measured in a...
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CGW4UChapter 2: What Do You Know of the World?
Classifying Countries
A country’s level of development can be measured in a variety of ways – social development (the level of education, health care, jurisprudence, life expectancy, and rate of infant mortality in a society).
Economic development is a community’s material wealth and trade and is shown by such measures as the per capita GDP.
Using Two Groups
Developed/Underdeveloped Worlds - doesn’t distinguish between economic and non-economic development.
Developed/Developing Worlds – recognizes the fact that countries typically become more developed over time.
North-South – see Fig 2-2 on p.21.
Using Three Groups
First/Second/Third World – Capitalist countries, communist countries, and “South” countries.
Developed/Newly Industrializing/Developing
Using More Than Three Groups(Five-World model – see Fig 2-3 on
p.22)
First World – highest level of socioeconomic development (ie: Canada, Japan)
Second World – are or were communist (ie: Cuba, China, Russia)
Third World – well advanced in the transition to development (ie: Brazil, Mexico)
Fourth World – early stages of transition to being developed (ie: India, Indonesia)
Fifth World – little evidence of starting the transition towards development (Ie: Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Haiti).
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