world development

A)ii) World development is making sure everyone in the world has enough food, water, shelter, a good education and healthcare, which are purely just the basic necessities of life. World development is creating systems that help countries to provide for the basic needs of their people. There is an unmistakeable and obvious need for world development today, 6 million children die from malnutrition every year moreover a price of a chocolate Mars bar is enough to save a little child's life to stop them suffering and dying from something pointless like diarrhoea. It's disgusting and appalling that the living standards in Sierra Leone, the world's poorest country are the same as that of Europe 600 years ago. This leads to the average life expectancy being 37 years. It means that 3 in every 10 children die before their fifth birthday. The world is split into 3 general divisions, first there's MEDC's (more economically developed countries); this is most of the northern hemisphere including USA, UK and France these are sometimes also referred to as First World Countries, then there's LEDC's (less economically developed Countries) this is most of the southern hemisphere such a sierra Leone, Mali and Iraq; these are also referred to as Third world countries and lastly there are those in-between called the 'Second World' countries such as the Soviet Union and its allies. The LEDC's

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Why is there need for world development

Why is there a need for world development... There is the need for world development to ensure peace, stability, and progress of humanity. Lack of development across the world is the source of discontent. It creates rifts among nation, within nations, and within communities. It changes the attitude of individuals towards each other, for the worse. This results in envy, greed, and hatred. It uproots communities of people from their lands and forces them to migrate to greener pastures creating challenges of migration and social tensions. Afghanistan is one of the world's poorest and least developed countires. Two-thirds of the population lives on fewer than 2 US dollars a day! That's less than what anyone in the UK earns per hour! Even more, after 2005, the official unemployment rate is at 40%. More than one-third of the G.D.P (GrossDomesticProduct) in Afghanistan comes from its thriving poppy and illegal drugs trade. Opium, one of the drugs sold in Arghanistan hit a new high in 2007 for the amount produced. According to the United Nations, some 3.4 million Afghans are involved in producing drugs. This many people involved in the production of drugs, in a country with a total population of 31 million people, means that roughly, 11 percent of the population helps drug production. This war stricken country has had all of it's economy disappear in just four years, making it

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