Development Concepts Overview

Hey there, pre-matriculants. Welcome to Educate. Let us do the introduction to the concepts of development in development geography. So this is not the first time that you're hearing the word development, right? Development is all about developing something, right? Bringing a change or improving something. That's all about development all right So in geography terms, we define development as the use of resources and technology to bring about a change. So that's the first way to define it, is the use of what? Of resources and technology to bring about a change. So we are using resources, which are the things that we have around us. Then we use technology and we use skills and innovation, innovative ideas to bring about a change. For example, the person who realized that a Walking is too difficult. He invented a car. Now we can drive longer distances in shorter time. And then this development is mainly associated with the improvement of the quality of lives and the standard of living of the people. So whenever you define development, always mention that we are using resources and the technology to bring about a change. But at the same time, we are improving the quality of people's lives and we're improving the standard of living. people. So basically we need to know the types of development. We have got three types of development starting with the economic development. Whenever we say economic development, this is the type of development that is associated with economic wealth. Economic wealth is all about the value or the amount of money that we are having at a certain time. Okay so basically economic development is all about having money at some point. So now economic wealth actually includes human capital. Human capital is basically the average money that each citizen of a country is getting. The development in infrastructure. Remember, we've got infrastructure such as roads and bridges. You know that some roads have got potholes in some places or in some cities, but some roads are just well built and they are swift and they are easy to use whenever you are traveling. So that all contributes to economic development. We also have got trade. Okay, the market, the trade between two people or between an industry and a market, that's part of the economic development as well as environmental sustainability. We're still going to expand on that later on. So economic development is all focused on the economic wealth. And economic wealth, it includes human capital, the amount of money that... people are getting in a country or citizens are getting in a country, the infrastructure, the roads and the bridges are they well built for people to use, the trade as well as environmental sustainability. The second type of development that we have is social development. Whenever you hear the term social or society it's all about people. So whenever we're talking about the social development we are talking about the improvement in people's lives. remember that Development is all about bringing change and improving the quality of lives of people. So basically, social development is all focused on the improvement in the lives of people. So basically, when people's lives are being improved, we say that they are now having a better standard of living. So basically, the standard of living is all defining the people's lives, basically. So now here, this includes... gender equality. For example, you know that all genders are now allowed to participate in various activities. If you go back in time, you realize that sometimes females were marginalized and they were not allowed to do certain things. So there was gender inequality at some point in this human race, but because social development took over, now people have gender equality. We also talk about the access to basic services. Basic services such as electricity, water, proper sanitation, and all of those services that are provided to you, they improve your life. I mean, when you've got better access to electricity, your life improves. Right now, I'm using electricity to do many things. So basically, social development is all about improving my life as a person, and then also the control of diseases. Let's just say, for example, when we had COVID-19, the president had to call in a lockdown so that people cannot get infected. So it's all about socially developing people. Because if we did not control the disease, people might have died. people would have died actually. So basically social development is associated with improving people's lives. So an example of a scenario whereby we have social development, it is when employment is generated. When I start a company and then I employ people to work in that company, we actually eradicate poverty. We actually finish poverty because the moment I employ people in my company, I will pay them something. And when I pay them something, they won't be poor anymore. So Employee creating employment is a social development aspect. Okay, if I'm creating employment for people, I know that people will now have something to work with. People will now have a salary to feed their families. They will now have a bread to eat. Okay, so basically eradicating poverty and generating employment opportunities is one aspect of social development. And also empowering the marginalized people. you know that there are people that are marginalized or there are certain types of groups that are restricted to do certain things in the world. Okay. So there are certain types. I won't mention examples, but you have to do more research, but there are certain types of people that are not allowed to do certain things in a country. So basically that's a bad thing because we should all be treated equally and we should all be given the same human rights, despite our beliefs despite our our thoughts and our opinions and whatnot. So basically, if we're empowering the marginalized people, the people that we aim, the people that are suppressed or the people that are deprived of their human rights, then we're actually bringing about social development. So it's all about improving the people's lives. It's all about improving the standard of living. Do you wish to get level seven for all your subjects? Download Learner ADR app for self assessments. Measure the progress you made. Get individual explanation of each question and answer in voice and text. Watch video lessons. Download past papers. Use AI Companion for any work. Get guidance on university admission, bursaries and scholarships. Download Learner ADR app. Using the link given below. Now, let's talk about sustainable development. When you say that we've got a sustainable development, it simply means that this is the development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the needs of the future generations. So when you say that something is sustainable, it simply means that we are actually meeting our needs. We are using the resources and technology, of course. We are bringing change. We are improving our lives, but we are not depriving those resources for our future generations. For example, currently electricity in South Africa is generated using coal and coal is non-renewable. So basically, if we are going to mine all the coal in South Africa and generate the electricity now, what will happen to our kids in the next 20 years? Do you ever question yourself about that? So basically, sustainable development simply means that we are using the resources that we have wisely. As much as we want development in a country, we need to use those resources wisely so that the future generation can also use those resources as well to be able to sustain themselves, to be able to develop themselves. So we say that development is sustainable when it meets the needs of the present, but it does not compromise the needs of the future generations. So for example, it includes the wise use of resources to ensure that the future generation is not deprived of the same resources. So basically, I've already given you an example of coal, that when we are mining coal to generate electricity in South Africa, we do not mine all the coal. We will leave some of it so that then the next generation can be able to use it to generate electricity as well because if we were to actually deplete all the coal and finish all of it mine all of it generate a lot of electricity drive all the development what will happen to our kids in the next 20 years or 50 years or in the future generations hey lapo i know that you've been enjoying this wonderful video and most likely you've been enjoying watching this handsome face in front of you but sorry ladies i'm taken I just here to tell you that educate is on the road to 100,000 subscribers by the end of 2025. So please click the subscribe button and click the notification bell so that you get notifications whenever I post new videos. I want you guys to pass. Okay, so if you make my dream true, I reach 100k subscribers, I will make your dreams come true. I will even get you to varsity. I will get you with seven distinctions. Yes. Now we can separate the countries into developed and developing countries. So we have got developed countries which kind of look beautiful and we have got developing countries which kind of look ugly. Oh yeah, in the world's terms. So now a developed country is a country with an economic base that is built on secondary and tertiary sectors rather than the primary sector. Remember that you have already learned in the previous grades that the primary sector is all about farming, it's all about fishing, it's all about mining, all of those activities. Those are primary economic activities, right? And then the secondary sector is all about producing something. Okay, using resources to produce something. For example, if I open a car factory and I start producing or manufacturing cars, I don't know if I'm manufacturing them, but basically I start making cars. That's part of a secondary economic sector. Then the tertiary economic sector is all about providing services. Okay, providing services to people such as hair salon is a service, right? So if I make your hair, that's a service. So the developed countries, those beautiful countries or those countries that we say they are rich, what are they actually? Their money or their economy is based on the secondary and the tertiary sectors the most. So it means they're all about manufacturing and they're all about providing services. They do not do all those activities that are primary, such as farming and fishing and mining. Not that they don't do them at all, but... Most of the activities or most of the most of the activities that generate income or generate money in the in the developed countries, those are tertiary and the secondary economic activities. OK, so they've got more industries that produce a goods. For example, I've already told you that if I open a car factory, I produce cars. I'm actually doing a secondary economic activities. So basically developed countries their money is not generating from primary activities such as farming and fishing and mining. Their economy's money is based on secondary and tertiary activities. So the other names for developed countries, they're otherwise known as the first world countries. So developed countries are otherwise known as the first world. This is actually a term that is a bit of a bias because I was going to say that. It's a first world country. It's more like they appear first or they are superior than the other countries. But basically they are known as the first world countries. Sometimes they're known as the rich north. We are still going to explain what is the rich north. Or they are known as the MEDCs. So the developed countries are otherwise known as the MEDCs. MEDCs stands for more economically developed countries. So it means that they are more economically developed. They've got better infrastructure They've got a better human capital. They've got a better access to services, all of those things. So they are more economically developed. Whereas we've got developing countries, which is, for example, the country you are in right now. So developing countries, those ones are non-industrialized countries. And those countries are actually poor. Okay, they are non-industrialized, but they're actually poor countries. When you say that a country is non-industrialized, it simply means that it does not have so many industries. It doesn't have industries. Remember, I've already told you that the industries, they are all about producing goods or manufacturing something. For example, if I start a car manufacturing company, I am producing cars. So in a developing country, we do not find so many industries. People are more focused on farming and fishing and all of those things. So those are non-industrialized poor countries. They've got less industries in that country. Those are known as... developing countries. Developing countries are also known as the third world country. You can see that we say developed countries are known as the first world country and now developing countries are known as the third world countries. More like we are putting them at a lower position. So it's actually a biased term. It's all about comparing each other. You know that's how it is in the world. So one is on top another one is at the bottom. So the developed countries they say And they will say that they are the first world countries because they appear superior than the developing countries, which are the third world countries that appear inferior than them. They are also known as the poor South. We are still going to explain what the poor South or they are known as the LEDCs, which stands for the less economically developed countries, which is just an opposite of the MEDCs. So it's a lot less economically developed countries. So now let me explain this thing about the rich north and the poor south. So here you can see that the developed countries will say that they are known as the rich north. Whereas the developing countries will say that they are known as the poor south. Rich north, poor south. So this is all about the position. Some of them are in the north, some of them in the south. So basically look at this image carefully. In this image you can see that here we are having continents of the globe. You can see that on top here we are having those countries such as USA somewhere here. You are having countries such as Europe here. Okay, it's continents and whatnot. So you have got Europe here. You have got Turkey. You have got all of those high profile countries. We usually call them Western countries. Okay, we usually call them Western countries. And here there is a line that is separating those countries from the ones that we are finding here. And which countries are we finding here? we can see the entire continent of Africa is just sitting there and it's written the poor south. So basically that's where the term comes from. We say that the countries are known as the rich north, those countries that are found in the northern hemisphere. We say that they're known as the what? As the rich north. And the countries that are found in the southern hemisphere, the southern hemisphere, we say that they're known as the poor south, including Africa as a continent. So basically Africa has got poor countries. Africa has got less economically developed countries. That's what we are trying to say. So this is also another term that marginalizes or another term that actually sets us apart. Okay, so we've got a rich North and the poor South. Look at this. There is a line that is separating the rich North and the poor South. This line is known as the branded line. So the branded line is not actually a line that exists in real life. It is an imaginary line. That line is not really there. We draw it just because we want to separate ourselves as the world. Okay. We want to separate the rich and the poor because the rich is on one side, which is the north. Then the poor is on the south. Okay. The richer countries, the USA and the Europe and whatnot, you are finding them here on the northern part. And then the southern part, you're finding the poor countries. So we put a line. It's just an imaginary line. it's not really there but we put it because That's what we are, humans. We separate the rich and the poor according to status. That's just how we are. So now this branded line is just an imaginary line which separates the rich north and the poor south in the globe. What a nice thing to do. So it's the branded line. So now you know what a rich north is, is the developed countries that are found in the Northern Hemisphere. Then the poor south is these countries, such as our whole continent is just part of the poor south. Those are the countries that are less economically developed, or those are the developing countries. But now you ask yourself, remember I said that development is all about using resources. And now you'll be asking yourself, doesn't Africa has resources? Doesn't Africa have resources to develop itself? Why do some countries need to be more developed than the others? It's all about using resources wisely. So basically for you to have. economic growth. What is economic growth in the first place? Economic growth is the ability of a country to generate wealth. So a country must have an ability to generate wealth so that it can become developed. Because in the first place, these countries, these first world countries or these countries such as your America, your what what, at some point they did not have all that they have. You can see that this is a pig chat that is a. This is actually Los Angeles. It wasn't like this, maybe if you trace it, maybe in the 10th century or something like that. It was definitely not like this. So they have developed. They have been some economic growth that have led them to be here. So what is economic growth? It is the ability of a country to generate wealth. So a country must be able to generate wealth because the country has the resources. Africa has resources indeed, but is not able to generate wealth. And how do you generate wealth using the resources that you have? You need to have proper control. So there must be proper control of those resources and there must be use, a good use, a proper control and proper use of a resource so that you can have development. So basically the resources that you are having in the African continent. in that low economically developed country in Africa. Those are the sources. You can use them to develop the country. But you are not using them. So basically, you won't have economic growth. So economic growth is all about that ability to use the resources that you have to develop the country. And how do you do that? You must have proper control. Listen to this. Proper control and the use of those resources. So basically, what happens in Africa is that we export our resources. We actually give our resources to other countries such as China, USA. We give our resources to those countries. And those countries, they do what? They use those resources to develop their countries. And we will end up just depleting our resources without having any development because we're just pumping them out. We're just exporting them. So basically, economic growth can never happen in Africa as long as Africa does not have proper control and use of its resources. Because remember that the definition of development development I gave you is that is the use of resources and technology. We do have the resources. We are not only talking about gold and platinum, even the basic resources that you have, the ones that you underestimate the most, they can be used to develop the country. But because you do not have proper control and proper use of them, you will sell them. You get sick money. The people that buy those resources, they will develop their countries using those resources. And what do you gain? Nothing. So we need to have economic growth. And the only way to do that is to have proper control and use of resources. Now, we have another classification under developing countries, which is known as the newly industrial countries. Bear in mind here, we're having the keyword newly industrial countries. So these are the countries that are developing. They are still developing as well. They are not developed yet, but they are still developing. countries. But these developing countries, they've transitioned, they've moved from an agricultural economy. Remember, the agriculture, which is the farming, the fishing, and all of those, that is part of the primary economic sector, right? And I've already said that as developing countries, we are focusing on just farming and fishing and mining. That's our economic base, okay? We are not manufacturing anything using those resources. We are all about harvesting resources and selling it to other people. That's why we do not get developed. So we have those countries that are developing, but now they've transitioned into a more industrial economy. So they've transitioned from an agricultural economy to a more industrial economy. So it means that they were agricultural. They used to do a lot of farming, they used to do a lot of mining and fishing and whatnot. But now they've transitioned, they've changed. Those are the developing countries that are known as the newly industrial countries. And when you say that they've changed to more industrial countries, it simply means that they now have more industries. And remember, I've already told you that industries are all about producing new goods. Okay, producing new goods. So I've met a couple of entrepreneurs in my life who have used those resources that you take lightly and they've been able to model them into useful products and they're able to sell those products. So that's industrialization. Basically, when you're saying that a country is an industrial economy, it simply means that the country is able to produce, produce value-added goods, produce goods that have got more value from their resources instead of just... harvesting the resources such as farming and fishing and selling it to the other countries. So basically, those are the countries that are transitioning. But as I tell you, most of the countries in Africa right now, they are still developing countries. They do not have proper use and control of their resources. Hence, they're not able to develop. They will remain low economically developed countries. Thank you so much for watching this video, Great Levens. Don't forget to subscribe to the channel. Tell your friends too.

Hey there, pre-matriculants. Welcome to Educate. Let us do the introduction to the concepts of development in development geography.

So this is not the first time that you're hearing the word development, right? Development is all about developing something, right? Bringing a change or improving something.

That's all about development all right So in geography terms, we define development as the use of resources and technology to bring about a change. So that's the first way to define it, is the use of what? Of resources and technology to bring about a change.

So we are using resources, which are the things that we have around us. Then we use technology and we use skills and innovation, innovative ideas to bring about a change. For example, the person who realized that a Walking is too difficult. He invented a car.

Now we can drive longer distances in shorter time. And then this development is mainly associated with the improvement of the quality of lives and the standard of living of the people. So whenever you define development, always mention that we are using resources and the technology to bring about a change.

But at the same time, we are improving the quality of people's lives and we're improving the standard of living. people. So basically we need to know the types of development. We have got three types of development starting with the economic development. Whenever we say economic development, this is the type of development that is associated with economic wealth.

Economic wealth is all about the value or the amount of money that we are having at a certain time. Okay so basically economic development is all about having money at some point. So now economic wealth actually includes human capital.

Human capital is basically the average money that each citizen of a country is getting. The development in infrastructure. Remember, we've got infrastructure such as roads and bridges.

You know that some roads have got potholes in some places or in some cities, but some roads are just well built and they are swift and they are easy to use whenever you are traveling. So that all contributes to economic development. We also have got trade.

Okay, the market, the trade between two people or between an industry and a market, that's part of the economic development as well as environmental sustainability. We're still going to expand on that later on. So economic development is all focused on the economic wealth.

And economic wealth, it includes human capital, the amount of money that... people are getting in a country or citizens are getting in a country, the infrastructure, the roads and the bridges are they well built for people to use, the trade as well as environmental sustainability. The second type of development that we have is social development.

Whenever you hear the term social or society it's all about people. So whenever we're talking about the social development we are talking about the improvement in people's lives. remember that Development is all about bringing change and improving the quality of lives of people.

So basically, social development is all focused on the improvement in the lives of people. So basically, when people's lives are being improved, we say that they are now having a better standard of living. So basically, the standard of living is all defining the people's lives, basically. So now here, this includes... gender equality.

For example, you know that all genders are now allowed to participate in various activities. If you go back in time, you realize that sometimes females were marginalized and they were not allowed to do certain things. So there was gender inequality at some point in this human race, but because social development took over, now people have gender equality. We also talk about the access to basic services.

Basic services such as electricity, water, proper sanitation, and all of those services that are provided to you, they improve your life. I mean, when you've got better access to electricity, your life improves. Right now, I'm using electricity to do many things. So basically, social development is all about improving my life as a person, and then also the control of diseases.

Let's just say, for example, when we had COVID-19, the president had to call in a lockdown so that people cannot get infected. So it's all about socially developing people. Because if we did not control the disease, people might have died.

people would have died actually. So basically social development is associated with improving people's lives. So an example of a scenario whereby we have social development, it is when employment is generated. When I start a company and then I employ people to work in that company, we actually eradicate poverty.

We actually finish poverty because the moment I employ people in my company, I will pay them something. And when I pay them something, they won't be poor anymore. So Employee creating employment is a social development aspect.

Okay, if I'm creating employment for people, I know that people will now have something to work with. People will now have a salary to feed their families. They will now have a bread to eat.

Okay, so basically eradicating poverty and generating employment opportunities is one aspect of social development. And also empowering the marginalized people. you know that there are people that are marginalized or there are certain types of groups that are restricted to do certain things in the world.

Okay. So there are certain types. I won't mention examples, but you have to do more research, but there are certain types of people that are not allowed to do certain things in a country. So basically that's a bad thing because we should all be treated equally and we should all be given the same human rights, despite our beliefs despite our our thoughts and our opinions and whatnot.

So basically, if we're empowering the marginalized people, the people that we aim, the people that are suppressed or the people that are deprived of their human rights, then we're actually bringing about social development. So it's all about improving the people's lives. It's all about improving the standard of living.

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When you say that we've got a sustainable development, it simply means that this is the development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the needs of the future generations. So when you say that something is sustainable, it simply means that we are actually meeting our needs. We are using the resources and technology, of course.

We are bringing change. We are improving our lives, but we are not depriving those resources for our future generations. For example, currently electricity in South Africa is generated using coal and coal is non-renewable.

So basically, if we are going to mine all the coal in South Africa and generate the electricity now, what will happen to our kids in the next 20 years? Do you ever question yourself about that? So basically, sustainable development simply means that we are using the resources that we have wisely. As much as we want development in a country, we need to use those resources wisely so that the future generation can also use those resources as well to be able to sustain themselves, to be able to develop themselves. So we say that development is sustainable when it meets the needs of the present, but it does not compromise the needs of the future generations.

So for example, it includes the wise use of resources to ensure that the future generation is not deprived of the same resources. So basically, I've already given you an example of coal, that when we are mining coal to generate electricity in South Africa, we do not mine all the coal. We will leave some of it so that then the next generation can be able to use it to generate electricity as well because if we were to actually deplete all the coal and finish all of it mine all of it generate a lot of electricity drive all the development what will happen to our kids in the next 20 years or 50 years or in the future generations hey lapo i know that you've been enjoying this wonderful video and most likely you've been enjoying watching this handsome face in front of you but sorry ladies i'm taken I just here to tell you that educate is on the road to 100,000 subscribers by the end of 2025. So please click the subscribe button and click the notification bell so that you get notifications whenever I post new videos.

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Now we can separate the countries into developed and developing countries. So we have got developed countries which kind of look beautiful and we have got developing countries which kind of look ugly. Oh yeah, in the world's terms. So now a developed country is a country with an economic base that is built on secondary and tertiary sectors rather than the primary sector.

Remember that you have already learned in the previous grades that the primary sector is all about farming, it's all about fishing, it's all about mining, all of those activities. Those are primary economic activities, right? And then the secondary sector is all about producing something. Okay, using resources to produce something.

For example, if I open a car factory and I start producing or manufacturing cars, I don't know if I'm manufacturing them, but basically I start making cars. That's part of a secondary economic sector. Then the tertiary economic sector is all about providing services.

Okay, providing services to people such as hair salon is a service, right? So if I make your hair, that's a service. So the developed countries, those beautiful countries or those countries that we say they are rich, what are they actually?

Their money or their economy is based on the secondary and the tertiary sectors the most. So it means they're all about manufacturing and they're all about providing services. They do not do all those activities that are primary, such as farming and fishing and mining. Not that they don't do them at all, but... Most of the activities or most of the most of the activities that generate income or generate money in the in the developed countries, those are tertiary and the secondary economic activities.

OK, so they've got more industries that produce a goods. For example, I've already told you that if I open a car factory, I produce cars. I'm actually doing a secondary economic activities. So basically developed countries their money is not generating from primary activities such as farming and fishing and mining.

Their economy's money is based on secondary and tertiary activities. So the other names for developed countries, they're otherwise known as the first world countries. So developed countries are otherwise known as the first world. This is actually a term that is a bit of a bias because I was going to say that. It's a first world country.

It's more like they appear first or they are superior than the other countries. But basically they are known as the first world countries. Sometimes they're known as the rich north.

We are still going to explain what is the rich north. Or they are known as the MEDCs. So the developed countries are otherwise known as the MEDCs. MEDCs stands for more economically developed countries. So it means that they are more economically developed.

They've got better infrastructure They've got a better human capital. They've got a better access to services, all of those things. So they are more economically developed. Whereas we've got developing countries, which is, for example, the country you are in right now. So developing countries, those ones are non-industrialized countries.

And those countries are actually poor. Okay, they are non-industrialized, but they're actually poor countries. When you say that a country is non-industrialized, it simply means that it does not have so many industries. It doesn't have industries. Remember, I've already told you that the industries, they are all about producing goods or manufacturing something.

For example, if I start a car manufacturing company, I am producing cars. So in a developing country, we do not find so many industries. People are more focused on farming and fishing and all of those things. So those are non-industrialized poor countries. They've got less industries in that country.

Those are known as... developing countries. Developing countries are also known as the third world country.

You can see that we say developed countries are known as the first world country and now developing countries are known as the third world countries. More like we are putting them at a lower position. So it's actually a biased term. It's all about comparing each other.

You know that's how it is in the world. So one is on top another one is at the bottom. So the developed countries they say And they will say that they are the first world countries because they appear superior than the developing countries, which are the third world countries that appear inferior than them. They are also known as the poor South.

We are still going to explain what the poor South or they are known as the LEDCs, which stands for the less economically developed countries, which is just an opposite of the MEDCs. So it's a lot less economically developed countries. So now let me explain this thing about the rich north and the poor south.

So here you can see that the developed countries will say that they are known as the rich north. Whereas the developing countries will say that they are known as the poor south. Rich north, poor south. So this is all about the position. Some of them are in the north, some of them in the south.

So basically look at this image carefully. In this image you can see that here we are having continents of the globe. You can see that on top here we are having those countries such as USA somewhere here.

You are having countries such as Europe here. Okay, it's continents and whatnot. So you have got Europe here. You have got Turkey.

You have got all of those high profile countries. We usually call them Western countries. Okay, we usually call them Western countries.

And here there is a line that is separating those countries from the ones that we are finding here. And which countries are we finding here? we can see the entire continent of Africa is just sitting there and it's written the poor south. So basically that's where the term comes from. We say that the countries are known as the rich north, those countries that are found in the northern hemisphere.

We say that they're known as the what? As the rich north. And the countries that are found in the southern hemisphere, the southern hemisphere, we say that they're known as the poor south, including Africa as a continent.

So basically Africa has got poor countries. Africa has got less economically developed countries. That's what we are trying to say. So this is also another term that marginalizes or another term that actually sets us apart.

Okay, so we've got a rich North and the poor South. Look at this. There is a line that is separating the rich North and the poor South.

This line is known as the branded line. So the branded line is not actually a line that exists in real life. It is an imaginary line. That line is not really there.

We draw it just because we want to separate ourselves as the world. Okay. We want to separate the rich and the poor because the rich is on one side, which is the north. Then the poor is on the south.

Okay. The richer countries, the USA and the Europe and whatnot, you are finding them here on the northern part. And then the southern part, you're finding the poor countries. So we put a line. It's just an imaginary line.

it's not really there but we put it because That's what we are, humans. We separate the rich and the poor according to status. That's just how we are.

So now this branded line is just an imaginary line which separates the rich north and the poor south in the globe. What a nice thing to do. So it's the branded line. So now you know what a rich north is, is the developed countries that are found in the Northern Hemisphere.

Then the poor south is these countries, such as our whole continent is just part of the poor south. Those are the countries that are less economically developed, or those are the developing countries. But now you ask yourself, remember I said that development is all about using resources.

And now you'll be asking yourself, doesn't Africa has resources? Doesn't Africa have resources to develop itself? Why do some countries need to be more developed than the others?

It's all about using resources wisely. So basically for you to have. economic growth. What is economic growth in the first place? Economic growth is the ability of a country to generate wealth.

So a country must have an ability to generate wealth so that it can become developed. Because in the first place, these countries, these first world countries or these countries such as your America, your what what, at some point they did not have all that they have. You can see that this is a pig chat that is a. This is actually Los Angeles. It wasn't like this, maybe if you trace it, maybe in the 10th century or something like that.

It was definitely not like this. So they have developed. They have been some economic growth that have led them to be here. So what is economic growth?

It is the ability of a country to generate wealth. So a country must be able to generate wealth because the country has the resources. Africa has resources indeed, but is not able to generate wealth. And how do you generate wealth using the resources that you have? You need to have proper control.

So there must be proper control of those resources and there must be use, a good use, a proper control and proper use of a resource so that you can have development. So basically the resources that you are having in the African continent. in that low economically developed country in Africa. Those are the sources.

You can use them to develop the country. But you are not using them. So basically, you won't have economic growth.

So economic growth is all about that ability to use the resources that you have to develop the country. And how do you do that? You must have proper control. Listen to this.

Proper control and the use of those resources. So basically, what happens in Africa is that we export our resources. We actually give our resources to other countries such as China, USA. We give our resources to those countries.

And those countries, they do what? They use those resources to develop their countries. And we will end up just depleting our resources without having any development because we're just pumping them out.

We're just exporting them. So basically, economic growth can never happen in Africa as long as Africa does not have proper control and use of its resources. Because remember that the definition of development development I gave you is that is the use of resources and technology.

We do have the resources. We are not only talking about gold and platinum, even the basic resources that you have, the ones that you underestimate the most, they can be used to develop the country. But because you do not have proper control and proper use of them, you will sell them. You get sick money.

The people that buy those resources, they will develop their countries using those resources. And what do you gain? Nothing.

So we need to have economic growth. And the only way to do that is to have proper control and use of resources. Now, we have another classification under developing countries, which is known as the newly industrial countries.

Bear in mind here, we're having the keyword newly industrial countries. So these are the countries that are developing. They are still developing as well. They are not developed yet, but they are still developing.

countries. But these developing countries, they've transitioned, they've moved from an agricultural economy. Remember, the agriculture, which is the farming, the fishing, and all of those, that is part of the primary economic sector, right? And I've already said that as developing countries, we are focusing on just farming and fishing and mining. That's our economic base, okay?

We are not manufacturing anything using those resources. We are all about harvesting resources and selling it to other people. That's why we do not get developed. So we have those countries that are developing, but now they've transitioned into a more industrial economy.

So they've transitioned from an agricultural economy to a more industrial economy. So it means that they were agricultural. They used to do a lot of farming, they used to do a lot of mining and fishing and whatnot. But now they've transitioned, they've changed.

Those are the developing countries that are known as the newly industrial countries. And when you say that they've changed to more industrial countries, it simply means that they now have more industries. And remember, I've already told you that industries are all about producing new goods. Okay, producing new goods.

So I've met a couple of entrepreneurs in my life who have used those resources that you take lightly and they've been able to model them into useful products and they're able to sell those products. So that's industrialization. Basically, when you're saying that a country is an industrial economy, it simply means that the country is able to produce, produce value-added goods, produce goods that have got more value from their resources instead of just... harvesting the resources such as farming and fishing and selling it to the other countries.

So basically, those are the countries that are transitioning. But as I tell you, most of the countries in Africa right now, they are still developing countries. They do not have proper use and control of their resources.

Hence, they're not able to develop. They will remain low economically developed countries. Thank you so much for watching this video, Great Levens. Don't forget to subscribe to the channel.

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