Causes of uneven development

Question 1

Physical causes

Answer 1

• Weather and climate - growing crops + natural disasters
• Relief
• Landlocked - trade (8 in 15 of the poorest countries are landlocked)
• Tropical - disease
• Water shortages

Question 2

Economic causes

Answer 2

• Poverty - lack of multiplier effect
• Trade - vast majority occurst within HICs, LICs have low-value raw materials - fluctuate in price vs HICs have high-value goods

Question 3

Historical causes

Answer 3

• Colonisation - LICs were exploited for raw materials
• Over 10 million people enslaved
• HICs left country in poor conditions after they left, would have to rely on HICs more