Contrasting Levels of Development

Key Terms


Oslo City Hall by Morten Mitchell Larød	Niamey, Niger by diasUndKompott

Use the information linked to from Norway and Niger webpages to complete the following worksheet:

Norway and Niger Worksheet

Contrasting Levels of Development Movie (.mov)

Choose two countries at contrasting levels of economic development and cover the following issues in detailed case studies of each country.

Issues in the “poorer” countries

Issues in the “richer” countries

access to basic needs and resources (especially safe water, food and shelter); the unequal distribution of wealth at the national scale; trade, aid and indebtedness; environmental quality
rates of resource consumption, foreign aid and loans, environmental quality
Be aware that both these sets of issues do not exist in isolation and that every attempt should be made to identify and examine the relationships with other topics in this theme and any of the other themes.