The Development Gap · Human Geography

Measuring Development

Critiquing different economic and social measures of development including GNI per capita and the Human Development Index.

Key Questions

  1. 1Does a high national income always guarantee a high quality of life for citizens?
  2. 2How do social indicators like literacy rates reveal hidden inequalities?
  3. 3Why is the North South divide an oversimplified way of looking at the world?

National Curriculum Attainment Targets

KS3: Geography - Human Geography: Economic DevelopmentKS3: Geography - Global Inequality
Year: Year 9
Subject: Geography
Unit: The Development Gap
Period: Human Geography

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