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Chapter 2: What Do You Know of the World?
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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.
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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.
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First/Second/Third World – Capitalist countries, communist countries, and “South” countries. Developed/Newly Industrializing/Developing
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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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