Poverty Flashcards
three worlds =
a definition used between 1948 to 1989
first world
industrialised and capitalist countries
second world
industrialised communist countries
third world
everyone else
north and south
used 1970s to 1990s
- northern hemisphere of the planet tends to be rich/more developed
’ majority and minority’
- majority = the third world
- minority= developed countries
development and underdevelopment
- implies some countries have missed out of development
- focuses on the exploitation - a neomaxist theory
MEDC
more economically developed country
LEDC
less economically developed countries
LLEDC
least economically developed
how is poverty defined now?
- by the gross national income
- this is useful for comparing countries against each other
how does the world bank define extreme poverty
- the world bank defines extreme poverty as
how many people are estimated to be in extreme poverty ?
1.2/7.8 billion people are estimated to live in ‘extreme poverty’
what were the Millennium development goals?
in 2000 the un aimed to ‘halve the proportion of people living in extreme poverty by 2015
- between 2000 and 2015 poverty fell from 1.2 billion to 736 million
sustainable development
- 17 goals
- ‘ eliminated poverty ‘ instead of ‘ reducing poverty’ also focuses on protecting the environment
