Transcript How green is the Olympic Games?

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Could the fact that China
won the most gold
medals at the 2008
Beijing Olympics be an
indicator that China is the
most developed country
in the world?
Medals Tables:
http://www.geographyalltheway.com/ib_geography/ib_develo
pment/development_indicators.htm
Measuring
Development
By the end of this lesson you will:
• Be able to recall different ways development can
measured
• Rank the different ways of measuring
development in order of effectiveness.
• Appreciate that measuring development is not
always straight forward.
Why learn about this?
How can development be
measured?
Task: Brainstorm 10 ways in which you could
measure development
Extension:
Which do you think is the most common
measure of development- why?
How can development be
measured?
Task:
1. Complete card sort of measures of
development.
2. Rank cards in order of importance.
What is the difference
between GDP and Gross
National Product (GNP)?

When the value of income from abroad is
included - what domestic companies earn
abroad, minus what foreign companies earn
here and send overseas - then the GDP
becomes the Gross National Product (GNP).
This is particularly important for economies with
large traded sectors, which includes many
developing countries.
An Index of Development
http://hdrstats.undp.org/en/countries/
Lesson Recap:
• Be able to recall different ways
development can measured
• Rank the different ways of measuring
development in order of effectiveness.
• Appreciate that measuring development is
not always straight forward.