1. Development Economics

2. Objectives
To be able to describe why some countries are classified as developed and others are not.

3. Why is this important?

4. Poverty?

5. Poverty?

6. Poverty?

7. Poverty?

8. Poverty?

9. How should we measure poverty?
National Income (GDP/GNP)

10. % in absolute poverty?

11. By income distribution?

12. Or maybe… Doctors per head? Televisions per capita
% in primary school, or secondary, or university?
Or something else all together?

13. By Literacy rates?

14. Population growth?

15. Life expectancy?

16. By infant mortality rates?

17. By a Human Development Index?