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Why does uneven development exist? Or Why are some places poor? - Coggle…
Why does uneven development exist?
Or
Why are some places poor?
geographical location
land loked
rural isolation
unpredictable weather patterns
pollution
telecommunications
resource rich
population and health
high populated countries will be more vulnerable to infections and diseases
low populated countries would be less developed
reduced per capita income growth tends to increase poverty
higher population can struggle with key goods such as clean water and food
long-term impacts of slavery
other countries captured people from, for example Africa, they would take majority young males and a few females. This wiped out quite a lot of the male population in Africa as back then the men did more of the work. This left the country to not improve anymore.
impacts of colonialism
the countries that got colonised were having their resources taken by the colonialists
civil war and conflict
Syria
Iraq
Zimbabwe
whilst people were fighting a lot of resources were produced so that meant that the country couldn't produce much food or water as weapons were being produced
economic reasons unfair trade debt
not enough opportunities for people to get good income jobs
high taxes
poor government and corruption
poor government can result in poverty
unemployment from poor government
high taxes
minimum wages
housing benefit
lack of resources
lack of oil
lack of food
no access to clean water
climate change
LIDC's take longer to re-build after natural disasters
approximately 250,000 additional deaths per year are expected to be caused by climate change