Il y a-t-il une connection entre le developpement et la qualité de vie?

The connection between development and quality of life

        Your lifestyle depends almost exclusively on your surroundings. If your country is poor or underdeveloped, it’s going to have a bad healthcare, meaning early death. It will have poor education, meaning you might not have many openings for your future. However, if it is wealthier, or more developed, it may impact one’s quality of life more than he or she can imagine. There are many development factors that can influence your lifestyle, meaning one country can be really poor in one rating but really good in another.

        First and foremost, the economy. Your lifestyle depends immensely on your country’s richness’. Many things you do not think about influence how you live. Let’s take an example: lamps. If a country has public lightning throughout a city, people might go out and enjoy their evening, meaning businesses stay open longer. In other words, public lightning is directly correlated to a more active society, meaning more money being used and traded. This goes for many resources a country may have; it can be raw resources, like a forest or a mine, but it can also be community resources, like services we do for each other (hairdressers, bakers, doctors…). The more a country owns economically, the better a person life is (or should be). Take for example Dubai, Saudi Arabia. Due to its many petrol sources and solar plantations, it is now one of the wealthiest places on Earth, and it’s not even that big, it’s just economically rich. On the other hand, poor countries that lack of resources won’t make enough buildings, leading to a lack of space for basic needs (schools, hospitals, police stations…)

        Then, the environment. Even though many countries are poor, such as some in Africa, there are a number of things those countries benefit from: their environment. Poor countries aren’t yet exploited as much as some MEDC like those in Europe, and therefor are not as polluted as European or American countries. This can lead to a healthier lifestyle. If combined with the right medical attention, education and sanity, one may have a better life somewhere undeveloped, perhaps in Africa, than anywhere in polluted megacities over Europe.

        Then, there is also society. A country that tends to listen to its people, make changes for and with its people, and harmonizes well together with the population can be a place where the quality of life is far better than a less democratic place. If people worldwide hear about how good one place is, they might decide to immigrate there. But from this good can also emerge bad: if the country has too many pull factors, it may lead to mass immigration like it did in Asia with China, and that will result in a very quick development that will make it as bad as any other country.

        There are thousands of factors that connect one’s quality of life to developments in his or her country, and all of those factors connect. Development can lead to a good life, as it can lead to a bad one. Hazardous times begin when a place overdevelops too quickly and turns out bad, or polluted, or broke.

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