1. Chapter 9
Trey Havard
Belle Otte

2. Key Issue 1 Human Development Index (HDI) (is measured by)
Economic Indicators
Social Indicators
Demographic Indicators

3. Economic Indicators Gross Domestic Product (GDP), or a cumulation of:
Job distribution
Primary, secondary, and tertiary sectors
Productivity
Produce more with less effort in MDC’s because of machines
Raw Materials
The amount of raw materials measures a countries potential for development.
Consumer Goods
Production of nonessentials for citizens.

4. Social Indicators Health and Wellfare Education and Literacy
More hospitals in MDC’s= better medical care.
Education and Literacy
The average student attends school for 10 years in an MDC, while in LDC’s that’s usually 3-5 years.

5. Demographic Indicators
Life Expectancy
Males live 9 years longer in MDC’s, while Females live 13 years longer in MDC’s
Infant Mortality Rate
90% survive in LDC’s, 99% survive in MDC’s
Natural Increase Rate
>2% in LDC’s, <1% in MDC’s
Crude Birth Rate
40 per thousand in LDC’s, 15 per thousand in MDC’s.

6. Key Issue 2 More Developed Regions Less Developed Regions
Latin America,, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Middle East, South Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa
Less Developed Regions
Anglo America, Japan, South Pacific, Western Europe, and Eastern Europe

7. More Developed Regions
Have high-priced goods export markets
Have secondary and tertiary services
Have large labor forces
Have even wealth-distribution

8. Less Developed Regions
Have high raw material exportations
Have controlling governments
Have uneven wealth distribution
Have primary jobs and services
Have clashing ethnicities

9. Key Issue 3 Gender Empowerment Measure
Gender-Related Development Index (is measued by)
Economic Indicators
Social Indicators
Demographic Indicators
Gender Empowerment Measure
Political Indicators

10. Gender-Related Development Index (GDI)
Economic measures how much money women are making (in comparison to men).
Social measures how much women are learning (in comparison to men).
Demographic measures how much longer women are living (in comparison to men).

11. Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM)
Economic measures how much women are earning (in comparison to men) and how many are in male-dominated professions.
Political measures how many women are in elected offices or governmental positions (in comparison to men).

12. Key Issue 4 Self-Sufficiency Approach to Development
Development through International Trade
Rostow’s Development Model

13. Self-Sufficency Country isolates and spreads their wealth
Tried by:India, China, African countries, and Eastern European countries

14. International Trade
Country locates and harvests natural resources/ services available only through them to sell to different countries.
Tried by: Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, United Arab Emirats, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong

15. Rostow’s Development Model
Traditional society -> the preconditions for takeoff -> the takeoff -> the drive to maturity -> the age of mass consumption
Assumes that the LDC that tries this has an abundance of raw materials.