Teacher’s guide: 200 years that changed the world
Use Gapminder World to teach global development from 1800 until today.
High income – rare in tropical land-locked countries
The role of geography for the prospects of development has been hotly debated the last decade. Economists, like Jeffrey Sachs, have suggested that a country that are situated in the tropics or that are landlocked face a much larger challenge in development, for a number of reasons.
What stops population growth?
Poor children may as well die? Time to learn what population growth really is about.
A Slum Insight
The urbanization will continue but can slum be made history?
Chile, a developing country?
What’s the difference between Chile, Cuba and the USA?
Bangladesh Miracle
Have you heard about the miracle that has happened in Bangladesh? – Watch the video to find out.
Globalization
The eradication of poverty is within human range.
Urbanization
The urban challenge.
Hans Rosling shows the last 40 years of development of urbanization.
