Developed and developing economies: trends in production, population and living standards

Candidates should be able to:

• describe why some countries are classified as developed and others are not
• describe the difference between absolute and relative poverty
• recognise and discuss policies to alleviate poverty
• describe the factors that affect population growth (birth rate, death rate, fertility rate, net migration) and discuss reasons for the different rates of growth in different countries
• analyse the problems and consequences of these population changes for countries at different stages of development
• describe the effects of changing size and structure of population on an economy
• discuss differences in standards of living within countries and between countries, both developed and developing.