Developed and developing countries can be differentiated based on their level of industrialization, per capita income, population growth, resource consumption, and other socioeconomic factors. Developed countries tend to be highly industrialized with higher incomes, stable populations, and greater consumption of resources, while developing countries are less industrialized with lower incomes, rapid population growth, and less consumption. Both developed and developing nations face issues like unemployment and require trade and investment to sustain growth. Key goals for developing nations include investing in education and health, boosting agricultural productivity, improving infrastructure, and promoting sustainable development.

1. PROFILES OF DEVELOPED
AND DEVELOPING
COUNTRIES
Maria Teresita B. Peredo
Reporter

3. WHAT IS DEVELOPMENT?
• act or process of growing; or creating something over a
period of time
• Providing better lives for people
* synonymous with economic growth
• The accumulation of human capital and its effective
investment in the development of economy
• Movement from rural to urban areas and the achievement
of worldwide communities via satellite and jet travel
(Dynamics of Development- The Philippine Experience by Estrelita
Muhi et al)

4. - WHEN ONE COUNTRY MODERNIZES, IT IS DEVELOPING….
WHEN ONE COUNTRY DEVELOPS , IT IS MODERNIZING.
MODERNIZATION
 Concept or idea
 Broader than development
 Just one of the major components
of the process of development
DEVELOPMENT
 Realization of the idea
 Just a part and parcel of the whole
process of modernization
 Broader than modernization

5. GROWTH
 Quantitative
 Rate or speed
DEVELOPMENT
 Qualitative
 Transition between two
fundamentally different forms of life

6. KEY DIFFERENCES- ECONOMICS, PER CAPITA INCOME,
INDUSTRIALIZATION, LITERACY RATE, CULTURE, LIVING
STANDARDS, ETC.
Profiles of Developed
and Developing
Countries

7. DEVELOPED NATIONS
 More industrialized
 Higher per capita income levels
 Populations are generally stable
 People consume large amounts of
natural resources
DEVELOPING NATIONS
 Less industrialized
 Lower per capita income
 Rapid population growth
 Consume less

8. GENERALIZED CHARACTERISTICS OF DEVELOPED AND
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
1. post industrial economies
2. High level of industrial development
3. High level of affluent citizens
4. Low levels of unemployment
5. Higher education rates
6. Technological advantages
7. Better roads
8. Stable governments
9. Good health care
10. Human and natural resources are fully
utilized
11. High level of per capita income
1. Factors of production are not fully utilized
2. In the process of industrialization
3. Low level of affluent citizens
4. Higher levels of unemployment
5. Lower education rates
6. Often contain undeveloped villages
7. Undeveloped roads
8. Unstable government
9. Endemic diseases in some countries
10. Poor nutrition
11. Unequal distribution of income

9. GENERALIZED CHARACTERISTICS OF DEVELOPED AND
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
12. High Human Development Index
13. Increased life expectancy
14. Low birth rates
15. Low death rates
16. Safe water supply
17. Accessible advanced medical services
18. Good housing conditions
12. Low HDI
13. High infant mortality rates
14. High level of birth rates
15. High level of death rates
16. Dirty, unreliable water supply
17. Poor access to medical services
18. Poor housing conditions

10. SIMILARITIES BETWEEN DEVELOPED
AND DEVELOPING NATIONS
 Both have the same problem of unemployment
 Both need trade and investment to remain stable and growing

11. PROBLEMS OF DEVELOPMENT TODAY
 “Structural constraints” to development
 geography
 High economic poverty
 Hunger
 High mortality rates
 Unsafe water supplies
 Poor education systems
 Corrupt governments
 War
 Poor sanitation
“poverty traps”

12. SIX AREAS OF POLICY TO IMPROVE
CHANCES OF DEVELOPMENT
 Investment in education and health
 Increasing productivity of small farms
 Improving infrastructure
 Developing an industrial policy to promote manufacturing
 Promoting democracy and human rights
 Ensuring environmental protection

13. DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES
 Assistance for development- economic aid
 Poverty reduction
 Sustainable development
 Gender equality
 New investment strategies

14. GROUP OF SEVEN

15. G7
 Informal bloc of industrialized democracies
 US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK
 Meets annually
 Became G8 in 1994-2014 (Russia)

16. Canada
Stephen Harper, Prime Minister
Stephen Harper, Prime Minister

17. France
François Hollande, President

18. Germany
Angela Merkel, Chancellor

19. Italy
Matteo Renzi, Prime Minister

20. Japan
Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister

21. United Kingdom
David Cameron, Prime Minister

22. United States
Barack Obama, President

23. MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS (MDG)

24. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ACTIVE LISTENING…..
“Twenty years from now you will be more
disappointed by the things that you didn’t do
than by the ones you did do. So throw off the
bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour.
Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore.
Dream. Discover.” ~ Mark Twain