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Development

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  • how rich or poor a country is
  • development is a scale: countries are rarely either rich or poor, they can be somewhere in the middle

low income countries (LIC) –> newly emerging economies (NEE) –> high income countries (HIC)

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How can we measure how developed a country is?

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By using development indicators

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Development indicator examples:

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> income (usually measured in GDP/GNI)
> life expectancy
> literacy rate
> access to clean water
> number of doctors