Difference between developed and

developing countries

What exactly is the difference between the developments of different

countries??
What makes a country poor and a country rich. Is it due to mankind
existing there or something else? Or by nature

Well starting by defining the words 'poor and 'rich'. Do you mean rich in
culture? Or do you mean that the country has a very strong economy and a
high standard of living?

I believe, every country is neither developed nor developing. Neither rich

nor poor. I can say that my country is rich with good people and good
culture, but poor with technology.

Developed countries:
Post developed countries are those economies which have been developed
in terms of resources and economic conditions. These include economies
from the global north such as Germany, Britain, France, United States of
America etc. Developing economies are those economies which are striving
to come out of their social, economic and political crisis. They currently lack
what developed economies owe such as political stability, strong economic
indicators, free market system, democracy etc. The developing economies
include economies of global south or rapidly emerging economies such as
India, China, Brazil, and Turkey etc. These economies have greater chances
to become stronger in coming future. However underdeveloped countries
are usually referred to third world countries which are in worse conditions
as compared to the developing and developed countries. These economies
lack political stability, face military intervention, very high poverty line,
greater unemployment, greater default risks and greater economic
problems. These are some things and the factors which differentiate
between a developed and developing country and economy.

Factors of Developed country: EIELA

Good economy
Good infrastructure
Good employment
Bettter standard of living
Army

Underdeveloped countries:
Underdeveloped countries usually have a large percentage of the population
engaged subsistence agriculture or working on large plantations.
Subsistence agriculture is raising crops for family use with little, if any, of
the crop sold. Underdeveloped countries, a small percentage of the
population are engaged in manufacturing and industry.

Factors of Developing country:

The above qualities only to a smaller extent.

Even in developing countries there are cases where one moves at a rapid
pace to get Developed country recognition (China) and the other which
moves at a snail pace to get the same (India).

What makes a country developed and developing?

1) Population.
2) Poor Planning.
3) Inefficient government.
I think it's not very wise to label a country as undeveloped or developed,
since development is something very subjective. It depends on the time
instant and criteria used to measure it.

Often the label of underdeveloped country is applied to countries which are

poor, defining poor country as country which doesn't have enough
economical resources to sustain it selves. But, is it right to say a country is
underdeveloped only because this reason? I think not, because a country
may be very rich but it could have a really corrupt government which spends
irrationally the money of the taxpayers, or a political class accustomed to
steal fortunes to the state.

Maybe being 'developed' or 'underdeveloped' just depends on having or not

a balance between government corruption and economical income.
West Africa as underdeveloped countries and how is the globalization is
going on there? And the culture and the economics there. This is also which
tells about the difference between the developed and developing countries
West Africa is a huge area, with a number of countries, and an even larger
number of different peoples living there, so it is an impossible task to look
for a single culture or economical set-up. It's a bit like asking what is
Europe's culture and economics - there is a huge variation. A multitude of
peoples, languages, religions, cultures, governments...

Those engaged in agriculture raise crops to sell products. This type of

agriculture is called commercial agriculture.
Development refers primarily to infrastructure and industry. That is,
developed nations have well established and maintained travel capacity
(roads, trains, airports, shipping), power supplies, telecommunications,
water, agriculture and education systems, sufficient to support their
population.

They also have an industry sufficient to sustain that infrastructure. Of

course, industry and infrastructure are symbiotic - both need each other.
Industry requires infrastructure to operate, and infrastructure requires
capital to be maintained and expanded.

Developed:

A developing country normally has comparatively low level of affluence and

more unemployment rate. In developing countries, there is low per capita
income, poverty, less education level and low capital formation. Such
countries are fighting to get these things, but might not have reached them.
These countries are usually suffered from war, disease, poverty, natural
disasters, etc.

The developed,/advanced economies have developed economies. They have

technological improvements, excellent roads, a steady government etc. This
level of economic development usually translates into a High GDP per capita
(average income), Good education, and Good health.

Developing:

The underdevelopment of the third world is marked by a number of common

traits; distorted and highly dependent economies devoted to producing
primary products for the developed world and to provide markets for their
finished goods; traditional, rural social structures; high population growth;
and widespread poverty. Nevertheless, the third world is sharply
differentiated, for it includes countries on various levels of economic
development. And despite the poverty of the countryside and the urban
shantytowns, the ruling elites of most third world countries are wealthy.

This combination of conditions in Asia, Africa, Oceania and Latin America is

linked to the absorption of the third world into the international capitalist
economy, by way of conquest or indirect domination. The main economic
consequence of Western domination was the creation, for the first time in
history, of a world market. By setting up throughout the third world sub-
economies linked to the West, and by introducing other modern institutions,
industrial capitalism disrupted traditional economies and, indeed, societies.
This disruption led to underdevelopment.

Because the economies of underdeveloped countries have been geared to

the needs of industrialized countries, they often comprise only a few modern
economic activities, such as mining or the cultivation of plantation crops.
Control over these activities has often remained in the hands of large foreign
firms. The prices of third world products are usually determined by large
buyers in the economically dominant countries of the West, and trade with
the West provides almost all the third world's income. Throughout the
colonial period, outright exploitation severely limited the accumulation of
capital within the foreign-dominated countries. Even after decolonization (in
the 1950's, 1960's, and 1970's, the economies of the third world developed
slowly, or not at all, owing largely to the deterioration of the "terms of trade"-
the relation between the cost of the goods a nation must import from abroad
and its income from the exports it sends to foreign countries. Terms of trade
are said to deteriorate when the cost of imports rises faster than income from
exports. Since buyers in the industrialized countries determined the prices
of most products involved in international trade, the worsening position of
the third world was scarcely surprising. Only the oil-producing countries
(after 1973) succeeded in escaping the effects of Western, domination of the
world economy.

No study of the third world could hope to assess its future prospects without
taking into account population growth. In 1980, the earth's population was
estimated at 4.4 billion, 72 percent of it in the third world, and it seemed likely
to reach 6.2 billion, 80 percent of it in the third world, at the close of the
century. This population explosion in the third world will surely prevent any
substantial improvements in living standards there as well as threaten
people in stagnant economies with worsening poverty.

Role in World Politics:

The Bandung conference, in 1955, was the beginning of the political

emergence of the third world. Two nations whose social and economic
systems were sharply opposed-China and India-played a major role in
promoting that conference and in changing the relation between the third
world and the industrial countries, capitalist and Communist. As a result of
de-colonialization, the United Nations, at first numerically dominated by
European countries and countries of European origin, was gradually
transformed into something of a third world forum. With increasing urgency,
the problem of underdevelopment then became the focus of a permanent,
although essentially academic, debate. Despite that debate, the unity of the
third world remains hypothetical, expressed mainly from the platforms of
international conferences.

The outstanding difference is

Under developing countries focus on the developing techniques to improve

living standard, huge employment rate. And development is common
problem of developing countries.
While, in case of developed countries growth is their common problem and
they focus on to control growth and to allocate more resources and to stable
their developed state and also try to maintain and increase their GDP.