7.1.1 - How is social development measured?

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Learning Objectives

• The use of gender and health as comparative measures of social development. 

• The concept that there is a continuum of social development. 

• The use of social development evidence to consider the dynamic nature of the ‘development gap’ (for example, recent changes to birth rate and life expectancy).

Resources

• Social Development Booklet here

7.2.1 -  What challenges face social development in sub- Saharan Africa and South  Asia?

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Learning Objectives

• An overview of the social, economic and political factors that influence changing birth rates and death rates in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. How population pyramids reflect population structure in these regions of the world.

• The reasons for child labour. The challenges relating to primary education and especially the education of girls in sub-Saharan Africa* and South Asia*. 

• How these issues are tackled at the local scale in one country in sub-Saharan Africa/Asia and also at the global scale (for example, the use of international targets set by the United Nations).

• The reasons for international refugee movement and asylum seekers from sub-Saharan Africa/Asia. How this issue is being tackled by national governments and international agreements (for example, tackling migration issues in the Mediterranean).

7.2.2 - What are the health care issues in sub-Saharan Africa?

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Learning Objectives

• Reasons for high rates of infant mortality. The challenges created by HIV and malaria in sub-Saharan Africa. 

• How these issues are tackled at the local scale in one country in sub- Saharan Africa and at the global scale (for example, the use of international targets set by the United Nations). 

• The concepts of top-down and bottom-up approaches to development. How progress is measured and what progress is being made.