POLB90H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Infant Mortality, Tongues Untied
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Polb90 week 1 howard handleman: understanding. The untied nations and other international organization have reached the consensus on the term less develop countries (ldcs) that does not hold the normative flaws of underdeveloped , third world or developing . Argument: there are enough commonalities among third world countries to make that conceptually useful. While some third world countries are underdeveloped in all major aspects of modernization, others are far more advance in some aspects of development than others. Gdp has a negative correlation with poverty in lrds, but this correlation is. Countries with growing gdps (china, india) have a substantial amount of poverty. Generally, income is more equitably distributed among advanced industrialized nations, though not always: this is why per capita income might not always give a complete picture of a country"s economic state. Human development index (hdi): a composite measure of school enrollment, adult literacy, life expectancy, and per-capita income (gdp).
