Contrasting Levels of Development

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.