Examine the strengths and weaknesses of using a development diamond as a method of showing the development of a country (4 marks)

  1. All 4 indicators are relevant to the Human Development Index, which is a competent and well-known way of showing development (1)

  2. Weakness could be that the values are all relative and refer to other low income countries (2)

  3. It could be useful as a visual indicator as opposed to statistics (1)

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