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Economic development

Long run improvements in broad measures of income per capita, education and health outcomes and reductions in extreme poverty, hardship and inequality.

Macro Case Study: India's development

Topical case studies
Country Profile for 2026 Exams: Vietnam

14th March 2026
In the News Teaching Activity – How does conflict influence growth and economic development? (Jan 2026)

22nd January 2026
In the News Teaching Activity – what are the benefits and costs of salmon fishing in Chile? (June 2025)

5th June 2025
Electricity Sparks Change in a Senegalese Village

27th January 2025
Breaking Myths: Surprising Insights from 2024’s Development Economics Research

29th December 2024
From Burden to Opportunity: Côte d’Ivoire’s Debt-for-Development Revolution

29th December 2024
Case Study: Addressing the Job Creation Challenge in Sub-Saharan Africa

16th December 2024
In the News Teaching Activity – rising chocolate demand boosts Indian cocoa bean industry (Nov 2024)

28th November 2024
Raising the Bar on Poverty: Why the World Bank’s New Definition Matters

19th November 2024
Development Strategies | Classroom Posters / Handouts

Poster / Student Handout
IB Economics - Economic Growth and Economic Development

Study Notes
Breaking Free from the Middle-Income Trap: A 3i Roadmap to Prosperity

2nd August 2024
In the News Teaching Activity – is climate change a consequence of information failure? (May 2024)

2nd May 2024
Edexcel A-Level Economics (A) Theme 4 Knowledge Organiser Pack 2

Exam Support
Growth and Development in Bangladesh I A-Level, AP and IB Economics

Topic Videos
Externalities and Development: 10 million people in Thailand suffer pollution-related illnesses

8th March 2024
IMF suggests Latin America could develop faster with more international trade openness (Nov 2023)

23rd November 2023
4.2.6.5 Economic Growth and Development (AQA A-Level Economics Teaching PowerPoint)

Teaching PowerPoints
In the News Teaching Activity: The UK’s Poor Public Sector Investment Record (Oct 2023)

9th October 2023
4.3.3 Industrialisation: The Lewis Model (Edexcel A-Level Economics Teaching PowerPoint)

Teaching PowerPoints
4.3.2 Demography and Development (Edexcel A-Level Economics Teaching PowerPoint)

Teaching PowerPoints
Identify market-orientated drivers of growth and development (Edexcel)

Study Notes
4.3.2 Factors influencing Growth and Development (Edexcel A-Level Economics Teaching PowerPoint)

Teaching PowerPoints
4.3.1 Measures of Development (Edexcel A-Level Economics Teaching PowerPoint)

Teaching PowerPoints
To what extent are high fertility rates evidence for low economic development?

Study Notes
4.3.3 Strategies Influencing Growth and Development (Edexcel)

Study Notes
4.3.2 Factors Influencing Growth and Development (Edexcel)

Study Notes
4.3.1 Measures of Development (Edexcel)

Study Notes
Development Barriers - Property Rights and Corruption

Topic Videos
Growth and Development Profile - Zambia

Topic Videos
The world desperately needs a fairer economy

16th April 2023
Development Economics - Joint Ventures and Developing Countries

Topic Videos
Updated Resources on Economic Development

10th April 2023
The Latin American Development Model

Study Notes
Videos on the looming Global Water Crisis

22nd March 2023
Kahoot Quiz on Growth and Development

15th March 2023
Economic Development - Does Debt Relief promote development in poorer countries?

Topic Videos
New Resources on Development Economics

9th March 2023
Economic Development - Are Cash Transfers Crucial in Cutting Poverty?

8th March 2023
Lewis Model of Structural Economic Growth and Development

Study Notes
Does Micro Finance Aid Poverty Reduction and Economic Development?

Study Notes
Chile's Free-Market Approach to Economic Development

Study Notes
Economic Development - Why is Africa Poor?

3rd March 2023
Why is the tax revenue to gdp ratio very low in many poorer countries?

Study Notes
Should Sri Lanka change their development model?

28th February 2023
Economic Development - Can Sri Lanka trade its way back to prosperity?

3rd February 2023
Give Directly - Unconditional Cash Transfers to Lift Human Capital

30th January 2023
Arguments for and against farm subsidies in developing countries

Study Notes
How to make poor areas richer

20th January 2023
Land Grabs

Study Notes
Development Barriers - Gender Inequalities

Study Notes
Economic Development - South Africa Turns to Solar to stop Power Cuts

29th November 2022
Poverty Reduction - Half of Poorer Countries have cut Health Spending since Covid

11th October 2022
Development Economics - Digital Transformation in Guinea Bissau

17th September 2022
Development Economics - Yemeni coffee growers look to sell direct to improve returns

12th September 2022
Countries with the Highest Income Inequality

12th September 2022
Is the Sri Lankan economy on the brink of collapse?

22nd June 2022
Development Economics - Ten Key Thinkers

Topic Videos
EdExcel Paper 3 Synoptic Essay Question on Brazilian Growth and Development

Exam Support
Development Goals - Papua New Guinea Cocoa Farmers Growing Seeds of Hope

11th May 2022
Corruption and the Natural Resource Curse in the DRC

28th April 2022
2022 Exam Application Context - Countries with Lowest GDP Per Capita

Topic Videos
Edexcel Paper 3: Synoptic Essays on Economic Development in Ghana

Exam Support
Development Economics (Quizlet Revision Activity)

Quizzes & Activities
Development Finance - The Myth of the Chinese Debt Trap in Africa

20th March 2022
Inequality and development - emissions from high income nations dwarf those of poor countries

29th January 2022
Development Economics: Policies to Reduce Relative Poverty - Minimum Wages

Topic Videos
Development Economics - Vending Machines and Retailing in Kenya

14th December 2021
COP26 - Poorer countries spend five times more on debt than climate crisis

27th October 2021
Mining and Development - Pathways to Sustainable & Inclusive Growth

19th October 2021
Economic Development - Pacific Islands face lost decade

29th September 2021
Diversifying Jamaica’s economy in the post-pandemic world

13th August 2021
Development Barriers - How to Attract Private Finance to Africa’s Development

4th August 2021
Why market structure matters for development

3rd August 2021
Education economics - should government intervene to mandate lower tuition fees for local students?

22nd July 2021
Development economics - West Africa looks to create a regional electricity market

15th July 2021
Development Economics - Cameroon's fish farmers shaking up the market

18th July 2021
Education in Niger

10th June 2021
DRC’s rich soil bears few riches for its miners

17th May 2021
Somalia’s Businesses Tap Solar Energy for Growth

7th May 2021
Development Economics - Selection of Revision MCQs

Practice Exam Questions
Regional Inequalities in Sub-Saharan Africa

5th April 2021
Realising One Market for Africa

16th July 2016
Free economics lesson resources

19th July 2016
Resource curse: How being located near mines hurts manufacturers

30th August 2016
How Brexit might impact on developing countries

13th September 2016
Sub-Saharan GDP growth may fall below 2% claims World Bank

30th September 2016
Oil slump hits Indian remittance incomes

30th September 2016
Western Mongolia's Road to Development

2nd October 2016
Patel threatens to cut the UK overseas aid budget

25th October 2016
Development: the problem of 'failing states'

16th January 2017
What is the role of manufacturing in today’s economy?

22nd January 2017
Rapid Bus Transit and Growth in Dar es Salaam

30th January 2017
ID in a Global Economy - Making Everyone Count

2nd February 2017
Inequality linked to export complexity

21st February 2017
Kenya's Railway Corridor and Improving Livelihoods

25th February 2017
Wages Soar as China reaches the Lewis Turning Point

2nd March 2017
Absence of property rights - a constraint on development

5th March 2017
New Paths to Profit for Nigerian Fish Farmers

21st March 2017
Safe Clean Water Remains a Development Barrier in Africa

27th March 2017
Why does 'Junk bond status' matter for South Africa?

4th April 2017
Introduction to Economic Development (Revision Presentation)

Teaching PowerPoints
Measuring Development - Key Indicators

Study Notes
Millennium Development Goals

Study Notes
Paul Collier and Development Traps

Study Notes
Middle Income Trap

Study Notes
Private Sector and Economic Development

Study Notes
Botswana - Growth and Development

Study Notes
Ivory Coast - Growth and Development

Study Notes
Market-Led versus State-Led Development

Study Notes
Mexico - Economic Growth and Development

Study Notes
South Africa - Economic Growth and Development

Study Notes
Ghana - Economic Growth and Development

Study Notes
South Korea - Economic Growth and Development

Study Notes
Sub Saharan Africa - Economic Growth and Development

Study Notes
Economic Growth & Development Revision Quiz

Quizzes & Activities
Debt Relief for Poorer Countries - Revision Presentation

Teaching PowerPoints
Aid & Development - Revision Presentation

Teaching PowerPoints
Micro Finance and Economic Development - Revision Presentation

Teaching PowerPoints
The Rise of Singapore as a City State

Study Notes
Primary Product Dependence: Republic of the Congo

Study Notes
Development Economics: Ethiopia In Focus

Study Notes
Development Economics - South Korea in Focus

Study Notes
Development Economics: Chile in Focus

Study Notes
A Level Economics Development Economics Study Notes

Study Notes
Barriers to Economic Growth and Development

Teaching PowerPoints
Migrant Remittances and Economic Development

Teaching PowerPoints
Perspectives on Barriers to Growth

Topic Videos
Economist Profile: Paul Collier

Topic Videos
Economic Development

Study Notes
Brazil - Economic Growth and Development

Study Notes
Ha Joon Chang on Under-Development

Study Notes
Investing in Childcare to Build Human Capital

9th March 2021
Development economics: UK private lenders urged to join relief effort for developing countries

22nd February 2021
Primary Product Dependence - 2021 Revision Update

Topic Videos
Economic Development – Meaning and Measurement - 2021 Revision Update

Study Notes
Nature-Based Tourism in Laos

30th September 2020
Direct cash transfers and cutting extreme poverty in Yemen

22nd September 2020
Asia sees first regional economic recession in sixty years

15th September 2020
Coronavirus update: Decades of development progress are at risk

29th July 2020
Mauritius becomes Africa's 2nd High Income Country

7th July 2020
Development focus: Finding the 'invisible' millions who are not on maps

6th July 2020
COVID-19: the economic policy response [Year 13 Enrichment Task]

1st June 2020
Will coronavirus lead to fairer societies? [Year 13 Enrichment Task]

14th May 2020
Introduction to Globalisation [Head Start in A-Level Economics]

Online Lessons
Could Africa one day rival China?

8th April 2020
Financial Markets and Economic Development

Topic Videos
The impact of conflict on long term development

28th February 2020
Rising obesity as a barrier to development

9th February 2020
New Economic Thinking: Inequality - The Bigger Picture

4th February 2020
New Economic Thinking: What is happening to Inequality Now?

4th February 2020
New Economic Thinking: Inequality - What is Happening?

4th February 2020
New Economic Thinking: Inequality - Why Should We Care?

4th February 2020
Growth and Development Profile: Mozambique

Topic Videos
Growth and Development Profile: Morocco

Topic Videos
Growth and Development Profile: Senegal

Topic Videos
Indonesia’s Aspiring Middle Class

30th January 2020
A* Exam Technique: Potential benefits of FDI for developing countries

Topic Videos
A* Exam Technique: Evaluating government borrowing to promote development

Practice Exam Questions
The theft of national wealth from Angola

23rd January 2020
Development economics - new essays for practice

Practice Exam Questions
Why Are Some Countries Rich and Others Poor? (Ha-Joon Chang)

9th January 2020
Who has really benefited from Liberia's miracle oil?

5th January 2020
Development Contrasts: Youth Unemployment

Topic Videos
Development Contrasts: Health Outcomes

Topic Videos
Development Contrasts: Multi-dimensional Poverty

Topic Videos
Development Economics Success Stories from 2019

31st December 2019
Development Contrasts: Gender Inequality

Topic Videos
Growth and Development Profile: Bangladesh

Topic Videos
Growth and Development Profile: Rwanda

Topic Videos
Growth and Development Profile: Cambodia

Topic Videos
Growth and Development Profile: Angola

Topic Videos
Development Focus: Farming and Extreme Working Poverty

Topic Videos
Business origins - Clear The Deck Key Term Knowledge Activity

Quizzes & Activities
Building resilience to overcome external shocks

12th November 2019
Universal health coverage - a progress report

24th September 2019
Is poverty self-perpetuating?

23rd August 2019
Cesar Hidalgo - Why Information Grows and the importance of Economic Complexity

16th July 2019
How economic inequality might affect a society's well-being

4th June 2019
Brazil dam disaster: The cost of economic development

28th May 2019
Development in Action – Great African Examples

Topic Videos
Poverty Reduction in Low Income Countries

Teaching PowerPoints
Progress in Reducing Extreme Poverty

Study Notes
Will AI kill developing world growth?

18th April 2019
Micro credit versus direct subsidies in improving health care in developing countries

16th April 2019
Community Grain Banks and Basic Development

4th April 2019
Development Economics - Universal Health Care

4th April 2019
Would a four-day week improve productivity and reduce inequality?

4th April 2019
Development Strategies - Privatisation

Study Notes
Barriers to Development - KAA and Evaluation Paragraphs

Topic Videos
Tackling childcare in Sri Lanka

12th February 2019
Extreme Poverty

Study Notes
Solar power and economic opportunity in Ghana

9th February 2019
Foreign Direct Investment in the Global Economy

Study Notes
Poverty and Inequality (Quizlet Revision Activity)

Quizzes & Activities
Solar Powers India's Future

22nd January 2019
Universal Basic Income - Student Essay

Study Notes
Economics of Inequality (Revision Video)

Topic Videos
Development and Growth Constraints - Malnutrition

Study Notes
Vietnam - Economic Growth and Development

Topic Videos
Externalities: Air pollution is the new tobacco

21st December 2018
Development Policies - Removing Government Subsidies

Study Notes
Empowering women as a driving force for development

21st September 2018
Rostow's Five Stages of Economic Growth Model

Study Notes
Inclusive Development

Study Notes
Impact of remittances on growth and poverty

18th July 2018
Development Strategies and Policies

Study Notes
Developing Countries – Similarities and Differences

Study Notes
Importance of trade for development

Study Notes
China - Economic Growth and Development

Study Notes
India - Economic Growth and Development

Study Notes
Development barriers - child labour in tobacco

25th June 2018
Getting to Equal in Mongolia's Labour Market

20th June 2018
Professor Ian Goldin: "Development: A Very Short Introduction"

9th June 2018
Barriers to Economic Development (June 2018 Update)

Topic Videos
Economic Development in Focus - Low Income Housing & Sanitation

1st June 2018
Tourism and Economic Development

Study Notes
Sub Saharan Africa Development Report 2018

Study Notes
Digital Credit Powers Entrepreneurship in Madagascar

15th May 2018
Do remittances improve growth and lower poverty?

2nd May 2018
Privatization in Developing Countries - Lessons from Recent Experience

1st May 2018
Globalisation and Inequality (Revision Essay Plan)

Practice Exam Questions
Can extreme poverty ever be eradicated?

30th November 2017
Globalisation and the spread of knowledge

25th April 2018
Three billion people remain reliant on traditional stoves

20th April 2018
Esther Duflo: Poverty Not Only Lack of Money

19th April 2018
Could Universal Basic Income out-perform conventional Overseas Aid?

5th April 2018
Agriculture and economic development

Study Notes
Micro and Macro Influences on Income Inequality in Developing Countries

Study Notes
What is Premature Deindustrialization?

28th March 2018
The World Poverty Clock

21st March 2018
Recommended Follows on Development Economics for 2018 Exams

18th March 2018
Digital ID and Basic Human Development

26th February 2018
Economic Development: Vietnam Rising

24th January 2018
Do globalisation and world trade fuel inequality?

2nd January 2018
Are we asking the wrong questions about inequality?

30th December 2017
Hawassa Industrial Park in Ethiopia - Evaluating the impact of FDI

29th December 2017
India transforms the roof solar power industry

7th December 2017
Vodafone in east Africa - elite rent-seeking exposed

12th November 2017
Building state capability - the next big development challenge

26th October 2017
50,000 deaths a year in the UK attributed to pollution

20th October 2017
Development Economics: Cocoa Profits and Pension Funds

21st October 2017
Sunday evening TV and Victorian Economics

20th October 2017
World Bank adds two new poverty lines

16th October 2017
A Crisis in Learning - The 2018 World Development Report

26th September 2017
Africa's Great Green Wall

26th September 2017
How Junk Food is Transforming Brazil

21st September 2017
Zero progress in tackling school access

6th September 2017
Property Rights and Economic Development

1st September 2017
Why Africa’s development model puzzles economists

21st August 2017
China in Africa - A Changing Landscape

13th July 2017
Ethiopia bids to become the last development frontier

3rd July 2017
The Hong Kong Economy - 20 Years On

Study Notes
Chile's Copper Crash

21st June 2017
Inside an IKEA Carpet-Making Factory in India

16th June 2017
Development through infrastructure - the new Kenyan railway

8th June 2017
Risks for the Chinese Economy

Study Notes
Can Economic Growth help Development?

Study Notes
Safeway Highways Brings Better Coffee

12th May 2017
Ethiopia - Economic Growth and Development

Topic Videos
India - Economic Growth and Development

Topic Videos
Turkish investment in high-speed rail in Africa

15th April 2017
Should Zambia ban food imports?

15th April 2017
Focus on the Vietnamese Economy

7th April 2017
Focus on the Ethiopian Economy

6th April 2017
Africa Knowledge Fest 2017

16th February 2017
Tourism may bleed the people of the Atacama desert dry

2nd September 2016
Paul Collier on African Urbanisation

16th June 2016
Microfinance – A Failed Solution to End Extreme Poverty?

25th May 2016
An alternative way of tackling the savings gap in LEDCs

18th May 2016
Overseas Aid and Development Debate

23rd July 2015
Macroeconomic Profile for Zambia

31st March 2016
Macroeconomic Profile for China

28th March 2016
4 Things You Need to Know about Peru

26th March 2016
Macroeconomic Profile for Chile

20th March 2016
Beyond the Bike - photos of the week

18th March 2016
The world as 100 people

18th March 2016
Macroeconomic Profile for South Korea

11th March 2016
Beyond the Bike Lesson Resource - dictators and their economic legacy

26th February 2016
Building Contextual Awareness - Country Profile Sheets

16th February 2016
Chinese Economic Reform - An Overview

7th February 2016
Zambian economy and the OCR F585 paper

5th February 2016
World Bank Video on the Internet Economy

30th January 2016
Nigeria: Primary Product dependency and currency depreciation

29th January 2016
The importance of remittances - and trouble ahead

28th January 2016
Vietnam's Economic Reform Challenge

28th January 2016
Nigeria country profile - Growth and Development

9th January 2016
How much overseas aid does the UK give?

6th January 2016
Amartya Sen: Development Economics in the Next 30 Years

3rd December 2015
Causes and Effects of China's Growth Slowdown - Views from Economists

27th November 2015
Tourism and Economic Development in Africa

26th November 2015
Esther Duflo - Development Economist

17th July 2012
What Is a Natural Resource Curse?

16th September 2012
Fair Trade and Development

12th January 2013
China’s Development - Past Present and Future

25th January 2014
Development Progress for the Ivory Coast

2nd February 2014
Development Economics: Indonesia Has Developed, But Not Everyone Feels It

21st June 2014
Growth and Development in Ethiopia

17th October 2014
The Power of Remittances

19th October 2014
Growth and Development in the Ivory Coast

20th October 2014
Sugar Cane and Economic Development in Mauritius

20th October 2014
E-waste in West Africa

7th November 2014
The importance of infrastructure for development

12th November 2014
Foreign direct investment in Africa

14th November 2014
How China is re-balancing her economy

24th November 2014
The Case for Growth - Collier and Besley in Conversation

27th November 2014
Ethiopia sells $1bn worth of government bonds in capital raising

5th December 2014
Argentina - a century of secular stagnation

24th December 2014
Key global economic development moments of 2014

26th December 2014
Australia lags in Commitment to Development Index

7th February 2015
Indian economic growth starts to outpace China

16th February 2015
Why some countries grew rich

16th February 2015
Corruption in Nigeria

12th March 2015
African Students Abroad

14th March 2015
Sir Paul Collier on Urbanisation and Economic Development

17th March 2015
Economic Development in Rwanda - China Invests in Textile Manufacture

29th March 2015
ASEAN's next decade

6th April 2015
The Nepalese Infrastructure Deficit

10th April 2015
8 Reasons for Fast Growth and Development in the Asian Region

10th May 2015
Inclusive Growth Rankings for Asian Economies

15th May 2015
Development Economics - Mind, Matter and Behaviour

21st May 2015
Evidence that “landlocked” economies are disadvantaged

1st June 2015
FIFA, corruption and economic growth

5th June 2015
Could Djibouti be the next Dubai?

25th June 2015
Collier and Rodrik on Understanding Development

26th June 2015
Building Capabilities - Car Manufacturing in Ghana

13th July 2015
Land grabs and deforestation in Cambodia

30th July 2015
Africa rising: The new growth agenda (IGC Report)

18th August 2015
Africa in Numbers

10th September 2015
How will a Population Boom Change Africa?

13th September 2015
Beyond the Bike resource - comparing Uganda and the Netherlands

17th September 2015
Beyond the Bike - photo lesson starters

17th September 2015
Beyond the Bike - photos of the week

24th September 2015
Beyond the Bike - lesson resources on Uganda

24th September 2015
African governments issue more sovereign bonds

29th September 2015
Beyond the Bike - conflict minerals and smartphones

1st October 2015
Brazilian coffee farmers look to move up market

2nd October 2015
Extreme Poverty Rate Falls Below 10%

5th October 2015
Beyond the Bike lesson resources - aid and savings

8th October 2015
The price of water for Peru's poorest

9th October 2015
Kenya's growing thirst for coffee

12th October 2015
Beyond the Bike - lesson resource on development in landlocked countries

15th October 2015
A Lession resource: Using bicycles to promote economic development

15th October 2015
Tanzania - New Mega Port under Construction

18th October 2015
Beyond the Bike Lesson Resource: roads and development

22nd October 2015
Can China move beyond being an innovation sponge?

1st November 2015
Premature Deindustrialization in Africa

8th November 2015
The Future of China's Economy

11th November 2015
Assessing the predicted impact of climate change

13th November 2015
Structural Unemployment from Mitchell and Webb

16th November 2015
Which crops are most profitable?

23rd November 2015