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Measuring Development  Life expectancy  Diet  Access to health care  Literacy  Energy consumption  GDP  Per capital GDP  Industrialization  Subsistence agriculture  Labor force  Consumer goods  Infant mortality rate  infrastructure

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Economic Development and Transition

Chapter 18

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Levels of Development Developed Nations

– Northern countries– Industrial countries– First and Second World

Less Development Nations– Southern countries– Agricultural / Mixed Economy– Third and Fourth World

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Measuring Development Life expectancy Diet Access to health care Literacy Energy consumption GDP Per capital GDP

Industrialization Subsistence

agriculture Labor force Consumer goods Infant mortality rate infrastructure

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Characteristics of Development Countries

High per capita GDP Higher economic / political freedom Higher degree of consumer spending High agricultural output literacy

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Characteristics of Less Developed Countries

Low per capita GDP Low levels of consumption Less economic / political freedom Low levels of agriculture output Less literacy

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Levels of Development Primitive equilibrium Transition Takeoff Semi-development Highly development Newly Industrial Countries (NICs)

– Mexico, Brazil, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan

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Issues in Development

Rapid Population Growth Factors of Production Physical Capital Human Capital

– Health / Nutrition (malnutrition)– Education / Training– Brain drain

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Issues in Development Political Factors

– Colonial dependency– Central planning– Government corruption– Political instability

Debt– Debt + interest– Structural adjustment program (SAP)

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Financing Development

Investment– Internal financing– Foreign financing– Foreign direct investment (enterprises by

foreigners)– Foreign portfolio investment

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Foreign Aid

Government to government aid NGO to governments 1947: Marshall Plan (Secretary of State

George C. Marshall)

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International Institutions

World Bank: development projects International Monetary Fund: currency

stabilization; debt management United Nations Development Program:

dedicated to the elimination of poverty

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Transition to Free Enterprise

Central Planning to Free Enterprise– Privatization– Protecting property rights– Work ethic

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Transition in Russia

Communism in Russia 1917 - 1980s Glasnost and Perestroika

– Glasnost: policy of political openness– Perestroika:plan for restructuring the economy

• Oil industry• Freedom of the press• Multiparty system

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Transition in China Great Leap Forward: 1958, Mao Cultural Revolution: 1960, Red Guards, 1976: Deng Xiaoping - more power to local

governments– Four Modernizations

• Improve agriculture• Industry• Science• technology

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Industry China: light industry Economic zones

coastal areatax incentivesforeign companiesindigenous private companies

Patent violations -copyright lawsexpanding middle class

Three Gorges Dam

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China / Russia /India

Growth of middle class Labor: skills, education, cost Demand for consumer goods Demand for resources

– Oil– Gas