1. development geography
Reasons for Uneven Devleopment

2. Development
(II)
People
Reasons for
uneven
development
Uneven
Development

3. why is there uneven development?
Physical
Economic
Political
Social
Historical

4. why is there uneven development?
Physical
Economic
Political
Social
Historical

5. why is there uneven development?
Physical Social
Economic Historical
Political Economic
Social Physical
Historical Political

6. why is there uneven development?
Political reasons
what does it means?
Refers to issues regarding
the governance of a
country

7. why is there uneven development?
Political reasons
Leadership Political
Conflict

8. Political reasons
Leadership
Process of
• Setting Directions
• Motivating people
into action
• Working towards a
common goal

9. Political reasons
Leadership
Countries that are
developing well have
governments that are
• efficient
• development-orientated
• dedicated in meeting
the needs of the people

10. Political reasons
Leadership
Brunei Darussalam vs Iran
HDI: 0.838 HDI: 0.70
Both are oil rich countries.
Why is Brunei more developed?

11. Brunei Darussalam

12. 3rd largest oil producer in SEA

13. Money from oil used to provide
free education in Brunei

14. Money from oil used to provide
free healthcare in Brunei

15. Political reasons
Political Conflict
• A state of disagreement
• which may result in
violence and bloodshed
• eg?

16. Political reasons
Political Conflict
Jobs?
Income?
Political Conflict Disrupt Business

17. Political reasons
Political Conflict
Health?
Education?
Political Conflict Destroy Public
Services
(hospitals / schools)

18. What are some of
the recent
conflicts you can
think of?

19. Watch these clips about
child soldiers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l367yBlfUjQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6IMjnwztTo
Explain on a piece of foolscap paper how this
leads to countries with political conflict to be
less developed.

20. Political reasons
Political Conflict
At what scale can this
reason be applied upon?

21. Political reasons
Political Conflict
At what scale can this
reason be applied upon?

22. why is there uneven development?
Physical reasons
what does it means?
Things that has got to do
with nature!

23. why is there uneven development?
Physical reasons
Presence of Physical
raw materials Location

24. Physical reasons
Presence of raw materials
Raw Materials = What is extracted from Earth to
be processed into products
eg: Latex to make Rubber eg: Crude Oil to make fuel

25. Physical reasons
Presence of raw materials
raw materials are not
distributed evenly
• some countries are
more naturally
endowed with raw
materials than others.

27. Physical reasons
Presence of raw materials
On a piece of foolscap, explain how the
presence of raw materials leads to uneven
development.
As raw materials are not distributed evenly...some
countries....
As a result, these countries can .....income.
Thus, they have the money
to.......SOL...QOL....having a higher level of
development.

28. Physical reasons
Presence of raw materials
BUT
Singapore Japan Indonesia
• almost no • almost no • forests, oil
raw raw etc.
materials materials
• US$24 481 • US$27 000 • US$3 361
(GDP per capita (GDP per capita (GDP per capita
PPP) PPP) PPP)

29. Physical reasons
Presence of raw materials
Does having more raw
materials lead to better
development?
Explain your answer on the same piece of
foolscap paper.

30. Physical reasons
Presence of raw materials
At what scale can this
reason be applied upon?
National? International?
Write your answer on the same piece of
foolscap paper.

31. Physical reasons
Presence of raw materials
At what scale can this
reason be applied upon?
National? International?
Write your answer on the same piece of
foolscap paper.

32. Physical reasons
Physical Location: Climate

33. Physical reasons
Physical Location: Climate

34. Physical reasons
Physical Location: Climate
Due to warmer climate,
Tropical regions have
more diseases.
• Thus....SOL? QOL?
Development?
On a piece of foolscap, explain how this leads
to uneven development.

35. Physical reasons
Physical Location: Natural Disasters

36. why is there uneven development?
Social reasons
what does it means?
Refers to issues regarding
the society and its well-
being

37. why is there uneven development?
Social reasons
Education Population
Growth Rate

38. Social reasons
Education
• DCs have a higher
literacy rate than LDCs
• More people in the
country being able to
read and write.

39. Social reasons
Education
• People in DCs are more
likely to work in ???
industries

40. Social reasons
Education
SOL?
QOL?

41. Social reasons
Education
Italy Sierra Leone
GDP US$548
US$27 119
per capita
Adult 98.5% 29.6%
Literacy Rate
HDI 0.934 0.298

42. Social reasons
Population Growth Rate
• Refers to the rate of
increase /decrease in
the number of people in
the country

43. Social reasons
Population Growth Rate
• Refers to the rate of
increase /decrease in
the number of people in
the country

44. Social reasons
Population Growth Rate
more than

45. Social reasons
Population Growth Rate
Population
more than Increase.

46. Social reasons
Population Growth Rate
More
resources
required to
Population meet
Increase. demand.
more than
If not met,
QOL AND
SOL???

47. Social reasons
Population Growth Rate
Resources
cannot be
utalised fully
Population for
Decreases development
more than
Higher
Dependency
Ratio

48. Social reasons
Population Growth Rate

49. Social reasons
Population Growth Rate

50. Social reasons
Population Growth Rate

51. Social reasons
Population Growth Rate

52. why is there uneven development?
Historical reason
Colonialism
The dormination of a
more powerful country
over another

53. Historical reason
Colonialism
Colonial
Power/
Master
Colony
Raw materials are extracted from
colonies and exported to
colonial powers

54. Historical reason
Colonialism
Colonial
Power/
Master
Colony
Add value to the raw materials by
converting them into useful
products

55. Historical reason
Colonialism
Colonial
Power/
Master
Colony
$$$$$$
Product is sold for a higher profit

56. Historical reason
Colonialism
Colonial
Power/
Master
Colony
$$$$$$

57. Historical reason
Colonialism
Colonial
Power/
Master
Colony
$$$$$$
Examples?

58. why is there uneven development?
Economic reason
Cumulative Causation
Process which the
development of the core
is furthered while draining
resources from the
periphery

59. why is there uneven development?
Economic reason
Cumulative Causation

60. why is there uneven development?
Economic reason
Cumulative
Looks Causation
like a good
spot to
develop
factories

61. why is there uneven development?
Economic reason
Cumulative
Looks Causation
like a good
spot to
develop
factories

62. why is there uneven development?
Economic reason
Cumulative
Looks Causation
like a good
spot to
develop
factories
$$$$

63. why is there uneven development?
Economic reason
Cumulative Causation

64. why is there uneven development?
Economic reason
Cumulative Causation
I demand
more labour
and
resources!

65. why is there uneven development?
Economic reason
Cumulative Causation
I demand
more labour
and
resources!

66. why is there uneven development?
Economic reason
Cumulative Causation
I demand
more labour
and
resources!

67. why is there uneven development?
Economic reason
Cumulative Causation
I demand
more labour
and
resources!

68. why is there uneven development?
Economic reason
Cumulative Causation
I demand
more labour
and
resources!

69. why is there uneven development?
Economic reason
Cumulative Causation
I demand
more labour
and
resources!

70. why is there uneven development?
Economic reason
Cumulative Causation
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71. why is there uneven development?
Economic reason
Cumulative Causation
r

72. why is there uneven development?
Economic reason
Cumulative Causation
Looks
like a good
spot to
develop more
factories
r

73. why is there uneven development?
Economic reason
Cumulative Causation
Looks
like a good
spot to
develop more
factories
r

74. why is there uneven development?
Economic reason
Cumulative Causation
Looks
like a good
spot to
develop more
factories
r

75. why is there uneven development?
Economic reason
Cumulative Causation
Looks
like a good
spot to
develop more
factories
r
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76. why is there uneven development?
Economic reason
Cumulative Causation
I demand
more labour
and
resources! r

77. why is there uneven development?
Economic reason
Cumulative Causation
I demand
more labour
and
resources! r

78. why is there uneven development?
Economic reason
Cumulative Causation
I demand
more labour
and
resources! r

79. why is there uneven development?
Economic reason
Cumulative Causation
r

80. why is there uneven development?
Economic reason
Cumulative Causation
r

81. why is there uneven development?
Economic reason
Cumulative Causation
As more jobs are
generated, .....The
periphery loses more
labour and resources to
the core

82. why is there uneven development?
Economic reason
Cumulative Causation
Backwash
Effect r
Resources Labour

83. why is there uneven development?
Economic reason
Cumulative Causation
Spread
Effect r
Wealth Knowledge