Seminar questions for the first ¡­

Seminar questions for the first session (week 5) are:

Use the most recent World Development Report to find out which countries are the richest and poores in the world. What measure of "rich" should you use, and does this coice affect your answer? Use the most recent Human Development Report to find out which countries are the most developed and least developed according to the Human Development Index. Discuss to what extent this is a measure of whether the countries in question are developed. Try to find examples of countries that are rich, but has a low HDI. What characterize these countries? Try also to find poor countries with high HDI. What characterize these countries?

In addition answer question 4 in chap 1 and 2 and 5 in chap 3 in TS 9.ed