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Developing Countries: Modern Perspectives on Ideas for Upliftment

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Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

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Less-developed countries; Underdeveloped countries

Definition

Development, for the purposes of this entry, can be defined as the process of gaining competence and sufficiency in the provision of current and future necessities that improve the quality of life, such as quality education, job opportunities, well-functioning institutions, healthcare and nutrition, and infrastructure beyond basic levels.

Developing countryis characterized by some features of a developed nation and some of an underdeveloped nation. Countries like China and India have prominent features of a developed country that include sufficient investment in institutions, education, healthcare, infrastructure, agriculture, and those in the private sector, thereby promoting entrepreneurship. Developing countries however also have many characteristics of underdeveloped countries such as a sizeable proportion of citizens that live below the poverty line. This means that this section of the population cannot...

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  1. Australia India Institute, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Subrato Banerjee

  2. Centre for Behavioural Economics, Society and Technology (BEST), Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

    Subrato Banerjee

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  1. European School of Sustainability, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. Center for Neuroscience & Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  3. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  4. HAW Hamburg, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Amanda Lange Salvia

  5. Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Pinar Gökcin Özuyar

  6. International Centre for Thriving, University of Chester, Chester, UK

    Tony Wall

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  1. Dept. of Economics, Faculty of Arts, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat, India

    Sarah Ahmed Ph.D

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Banerjee, S. (2020). Developing Countries: Modern Perspectives on Ideas for Upliftment. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Lange Salvia, A., Özuyar, P., Wall, T. (eds) No Poverty. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69625-6_13-1

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