This document contains 6 passages from the years 2010-2013 that discuss bridging the development gap. Each passage includes 2 questions - a 10 point question analyzing a figure and a 15 point question assessing development strategies, measures, theories or examples. The passages address explaining development challenges, evaluating organization roles, contrasting development levels within countries, and assessing development approaches.

1. Development Gap:SAM
5. Study Figure 5.
(a) Explain the message of the cartoon, and state how far you agree with its message. (10)
(b) Assess the view that economic development is not possible without causing
environmental degradation. (15)

4. Development Gap: January 2010
Bridging the Development Gap.
4 Study Figure 4.
(a) Using information in Figure
4, and your own knowledge,
explain why it is difficult
to measure development.
(10)
(b) Evaluate the role of different
global organisations in
narrowing the development
gap.
(15)

7. Development Gap: June 2010
Bridging the Development Gap
4 Study Figure 4.
(a) Using Figure 4 and your own
knowledge, explain why some groups of
people within a country have a lower
level of development than others.
(10)
(b) Using named examples, assess the
advantages and disadvantages of top-
down
and bottom-up development strategies.
(15)

10. Development Gap : January 2011
Bridging the Development Gap
4 Study Figure 4.
(a) Suggest how the information shown can be considered as both good and bad
news for the developing world. (10)
(b) Using named examples, evaluate the success oftwo contrasting strategies used to
narrow the development gap. (15)

13. Development Gap : January 2012
Bridging the Development Gap
5 Study Figure 5.
(a) Suggest why the people shown have contrasting views on the priorities for
development. (10)
(b) Using named examples, examine the extent to which the development gap occurs
within countries as well as globally. (15)

16. Development Gap : June 2012
Bridging the Development Gap
4 Study Figure 4.
(a) Suggest reasons for the variable
progress towards achieving the
Millennium
Development Goal targets. (10)
(b) Using named examples, assess the
advantages and disadvantages of
contrasting
ways of measuring development. (15)

19. Development Gap : January 2013
Bridging the Development Gap
4 Study Figure 4.
(a) Using Figure 4, explain how the groups of players have both positive and negative
impacts on the development process. (10)
(b) Assess the extent to which models and theories, such as the North-South divide
and dependency theory, are useful in helping to understand the development gap.(15)