Causes of uneven development

physical

• landlocked countries are not able to trade easily with other countries without ports

• These countries therefore cannot charge other countries for their goods and services, reducing economic growth

• Natural hazards cause significant damage which costs money to repair

• Businesses can be destroyed, reducing economic growth

• Facilities such as hospitals and schools can be destroyed

• Water can be contaminated

economic

• international organisations like the world Trade Organisation criticised for not doing enough to establish fair terms of global trade for food and raw materials

• Countries could be charged more for raw materials so earn less money from these goods

• Corrupt leaders of LICs have profited from selling resources to TNCs

• Food prices fluctuate wildly

strategies of reducing the development gap

• investment

• Debt relief

• Aid

• Micro finance loans

investment

• importing and producing goods inside the borders of many different countries

• Cash injected into other countries is known as FDI

• Helps the development process to take place in differet ways

• Local people employed to build factories and offices

• Other people will work in these places

• Multiplier effect

Micro finance loans

• HICs loan LICs and NEEs small sums of money

• Subsistence farmers find it hard to escape poverty

• Longer life expectancy

• Higher disposeable income