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Saturday, March 17, 2012

Meauring Development Questions

Diamond Development

                                       
<----My group's diamond development (top is the most important, bottom is the least important)

3. a. We think that % Population with access to clean water is the most important, because if there's dirty water everywhere, a disease will be spread and

b. Which indicator do you think is the least important, why?
We think % people employed in agriculture is the least important because if we don't know the % population living in urban, there's no point people are employed in agriculture and if we don't know number of people per doctor, maybe the employers might get sick and there's not enough doctor.

c. Explain the positions of the middle indicators
The middle indicators are Gross National Product, Population Density, Population Growth. The reasons we put these indicators in the middle because we think that if we don't calculate the infant mortality rate, it might affect the population density and population growth rates. The Gross National Product's in the middle because if we don't calculate the literacy rates, people might not know what's the products uses.

d. Is there another indicator you think would fit? Why? No.

e.Was it easy to make the decisions as a group? Why or why not
No it wasn't easy because we have quite a lot of arguments about where goes where and when a group comment about our diamond, they said the statements that we didn't think about it. 

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Measuring Development

My group's LI:
To identify how to measure development, using the indicators.

My group's SC:
To know why there are different methods to measure development.
To be able to use key terms
To be able to reach decisions with the group

What is development?

Whose fault is it that the world is unequal?
I think that it's the government fault that the world is unequal. This is because it's the government's job to make people have the best thing they have, like medical and education. According to this quote by Nelson Mandela, "...poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome by the actions of human beings.", people in a LEDC, including women, worked everyday really hard, but then they have little money. My group also think that it's us people fault, because we waste food, don't donate money. Like Josh said,