19th International CODATA Conference
Category: Economic Development
Evaluation of economic, social and political gaps in world development
Alexey
V. Tikunov (avtikunov@rambler.ru)
Faculty of Geography,
The gap in social-economic development of different countries, their groups
and macroregions of the world reaches today such
rate, that all competitors perceive it as fundamental threat for global stability.
The world considers sustainable development in such conditions as the strategy,
that will allow to shorten the rate of that gap and to reduce the level
of tension in interstate relations. Nevertheless public opinion about the measures
of such development is not worked out until now. Revising the possibilities
of participation of geography, with the arsenal of its approaches and facilities,
in development of specified problem, the analysis of available theorist-methodical
experience of estimations of development, as well as searching for and approbation
of some original acceptance of such estimation are the primary tasks in this
sphere. How can geographers estimate the level of development, how can we explain
this term, what has been already done and what problems remain - these questions
are put in the work as a key subject. It is obvious that this
questions are put not for the first time and that its width and difficulty
do not allow to reckon for quick, simple success. That’s why when we try to
estimate development with the usage of quantitative measures and that is the
main subject of the work it is not so easy, because at fact that is the attempt
some qualitative changes evaluate using quantitative measures. In this particular
work the level of development is evaluated with the assistance of complex integrated
indexes. Among them there are some well-known one used
by such organizations as UN, World Bank and so on, as well as some new indicators
of development evaluating different components of development – economic, social,
politic, ecological, for the long period of more than fifty years.