What is Economic Development?

Development measures how much of society benefits from economic growth or progress. We have lots of terms to classify a country's development for example: Developed and developing

The term third world has been hijacked to represent something it was never meant to

Indicators of development

Gross Domestic product: The monetary value of all the finished goods and services produced within a country's borders in a specific time period, though GDP is usually calculated on an annual basis.

GDP is used as a measure to see how much money the companies that make the products make when people buy the product and seeing what their sales are like for them.

HDI is a tool used developed by the United Nations to measure and rank countries.

—The PQLI is an attempt to measure the quality of life or wellbeing of a country

—The value is the average of three statistics all equally weighed on a scale from 0 to 100.

—Basic literacy rates

— Infant mortality

—Life expectancy    

—Developed in the 1970s as one of a number of measures created due to the dissatisfaction with GDP as a single measure of development.

Indicator developed in Bhutan in the 1970s

The new HPI results show the extent to which 151 countries across the globe produce long, happy and sustainable lives for the people that live in them.—

GNI Per Capita:—Gross National Income (GNI) Per Capita

—Gross = Total $

—National = Country

—Income = GDP plus income earned by that country from its businesses overseas, in the last year.

—Per Capita = Per Person

Sustainability:Within the four pillars of sustainability, broad indicators of sustainability include:

Social

—Reduce poverty

—Sufficient gainful employment

—Higher education levels

—Increase/enhance access to social services

—Increase/enhance access to medical services

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Cultural

—Recognize and support existing rural culture

—Protect natural and historic heritage

—Support and encourage the development and growth of local arts and artists

—Support cultural diversity

—Advance the library system

What is poverty
Health education low income conflict and lack necessities

Has our national obsession hijacked centenary commerations of the great war

I don't believe that we as a nation celebrating the war and remembering people dying is a very good way of moving this nation forward. But i do believe that celebrating ANZAC Day has been ill affected. We celebrate by having a minute of silence. As well as that Australia spends more then any other country due to Australia trying to make Anzac Day bigger and better each year. Our National Identity is now reflected by celebrating Anzac Day and our military.

ANZAC Day

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Poem

I believe that Bruce Dawes used AFL football to explore the human life cycle to the fact that when your born you follow a team from birth and how the AFL ladder is like going up to heaven and the using of the demon and Saints. I don't think this would work with another sport due to the sports being somewhat similar to each other. Carn is a Australia way of saying come on at the footy when the team is doing poorly.

Global Homework Revision for the Exam

1.    How has humanity used nature’s resources throughout most of history?
build cities 

2.    Why are the mid 1970’s a critical threshold for humanity?
We crossed a critical threshold: Human consumption began outstripping what the planet could reproduce
   3. What is our current demand for renewable ecological resources?
our demand for renewable ecological resources and the services they provide is now equivalent to that of more than 1.5 Earths
4.    How many China’s does it take to support 

China? 2 and half earths

5.    Look at the chart on the RHS – what are the worst performing countries?
United Arab Emirates and Qatar 

6.    Why do you believe these countries are performing badly on the ecological stakes?
Because of how economically they are using their resources

7.    What are the signs that we are ecologically overspending?
We are overspending on roads and new buildings 

 What is the link between Ecological Footprint and Carbon Footprint? 
Greenhouse gas calculations make up a portion of an ecological footprint, but are not used in the same way as those in a carbon footprint.

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