The Changing Economic World · Spring Term

Measuring Development

Critiquing the use of economic and social indicators to classify countries.

Key Questions

  1. 1Why is GNI per capita often a misleading measure of a nation's well-being?
  2. 2How do historical factors like colonialism continue to influence modern development levels?
  3. 3In what ways does the Demographic Transition Model explain economic shifts?

National Curriculum Attainment Targets

GCSE: Geography - Economic DevelopmentGCSE: Geography - The Changing Economic World
Year: Year 11
Subject: Geography
Unit: The Changing Economic World
Period: Spring Term

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