5.1.1 Human development

Content

• Geographic inquiry and concept(s)
  • Ways of supporting the processes of human development
• Geographic knowledge and understanding
  • The multidimensional process of human development and ways to measure it:
    • validity and reliability of development indicators and indices, including the human development index (HDI) and gender inequality index (GII)
• Case study or detailed examples
  • Neither required by the syllabus
• Aims of this lesson
  • To understand that human development is a multidimensional process.
  • To understand the measuring human development is difficult due to its multidimensional nature.
  • To know that elements of human development can be measured using GNI, HDI and GII.

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