Explain Why There Is a Need For World Development

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Explain why there is a need for world development

The world today has over 6 billion people. Nearly 3 billion, which is half of the world’s population, are considered poor. There are two types of countries. There are the developed countries (MEDC) like USA or the U.K. Then there are the less developed countries (LEDC) examples of these are Zimbabwe and India, Uganda, Somalia and Bangladesh.

World development is the expansion in education, the environment and health services. Development is a way of measuring how rich or poor a country is. The reason why we need world development is because if the world isn’t improving in any way there will be no progress therefore there will be no results. If in a poor continent for example Africa, the percentage of people who are educated is very low. The environment which is already in a bad state will remain the same or even become worse and then the health services will suffer. It is only if the world will develop that changes will happen.

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Countries become less developed because of a number of different reasons. The most common reason is being hit with a natural disaster such as a flood or an earthquake. An area which suffers from this is Bangladesh; an area that had heavy floods in 1998. The terrible floods shattered the lives of 30 million people. A very recent example of a natural disaster is the Asian Tsunami, this was caused be an underwater disturbance. This affected 14 less developed countries such as India and Bangladesh, and has killed 295,608 people. It destroyed homes, businesses, families and left many without ...

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