Why the Range of Indicators Used to Measure Development Has Increased in Recent Years

Why the Range of Indicators Used to Measure Development Has Increased in Recent Years

Essentially the ideology of development was based on a countries GNP

this was down to Rostow’s Model; therefore the only indicator of

development was a countries economy. The ideologies have changed and

now there are a range of indicators that are used to classify a

countries development such as social, demographic, hence including

quality of life this gives the ideology of development a more multi

dimensional view thus a better understand of what a developed country

is.

There are three categories that are used to measure development they

are economic, social and demographic. Some economic factors used to

measure development are GNP, Infrastructure and energy consumption.

GNP has always traditionally defined a countries development, with GNP

giving an average wealth of the total population it is clear why it

was considered the only factor in measuring development but there is

huge flaws in measuring development sole on the economy of a ...