what are the three aspects for measuring development of two countries
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The world is often divided into two broad categories of countries:
the More Developed Countries (MDCs), and
the Less Developed Countries (LDCs)
Such a broad regionalization scheme is likely to be overly simplistic, yet it commonly used and it can be quite useful. Often different terms are used to describe each region. Think of other terms that you have heard to describe the MDCs and the LDCs. Then click here to see my list. One set of terms that is being used less and less is: First World Countries and Third World Countries - Why? Well, what is the Second World? How can you have a first and a third without a second? The Second World used to be the command economy (communist) countries of the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, China, North Korea, Cuba, Vietnam, and a few other countries. With the collapse of communism in most of these countries the "Second World" no longer exists.
We learned in our introductory lecture that when geographers divide the earth into regions they do so based a a selected set of criteria. What criteria is commonly used to divide the world into the MDCs and the LDCs?
I have selected some of the most commonly used Measures of Economic Development. Carefully examine the maps of each measure below. Compare each map with the map of the world's realms [Realms]. Try to get a general idea of how the realms compare in terms of their level of economic development. First try to categorize each realm as either a More Developed or a Less Developed realm. Then try to rank them from the least developed realms to the most developed realms.
It should be noted that great disparities exist within realms and within individual countries. The author of your textbook therefore discourages the use of the terms MDCs and LDCs since there are highly developed areas and very poor areas within most countries. Nevertheless, the terms are commonly used and we should be familiar with their meanings AND THEIR GEOGRAPHY.