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Why is there a need for World Development?  

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Why is there a need for World Development? In the world today, there are developed countries like Britain and Japan, developing countries like Brazil and Malaysia and less developed countries (LDC's) like Bangladesh and Mali where people regularly starve to death. If we are to have a fair world, then the LDC's will need greater help from the developed countries. It is also in the interests of developed countries to help the less developed because they need new markets for their goods and they need products like cotton, tea and coffee from the less developed countries. The world is now inter-dependent. Most LDC's are in areas where there are regular natural disasters like earthquakes and floods. For example nearly every year Bangladesh has had bad floods. Many LDC's suffer from wars sometimes caused by corruption, or by the way the country was split up when colonised by Europeans a hundred years ago. A...

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