Editing International development (section)

=== International economic inequality ===
{{Main|Economic inequality|North–South divide in the World}}

{{see also|South-South cooperation}}
[[File:Countries by GDP (nominal) per capita in 2019.svg|thumb|249x249px|Countries by 2019 [[List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita|GDP (nominal) per capita]]<ref>Data from the [[United Nations]] is used.</ref>]]
[[File:Global Wealth Distribution 2020 (Property).svg|thumb|250px|Global share of [[wealth]] by wealth group, Credit Suisse, 2021]]
[[File:Global-share-of-wealth-by-wealth-group-768x409.png|thumb|250px|Global share of [[wealth]] by wealth group, Credit Suisse, 2017]]
International development institutions and [[International organization|international organisations]] such as the UN promote the realisation of the fact that [[Economics|economic practices]] such as [[Globalisation|rapid globalisation]] and certain aspects of international [[capitalism]] can lead to, and, allegedly, have led to an economic divide between countries, sometimes called the north–south divide. Such organisations often make it a goal and to help reduce these divides by encouraging co-operation amongst the [[Global South]] and other practices and policies that can accomplish this.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/|title=United Nations Millennium Development Goals|website=www.un.org|access-date=29 April 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180306020515/http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/|archive-date=6 March 2018}}</ref>

International development can also cause inequality between richer and poorer factions of one nation's society. For example, when economic growth boosts development and [[industrialisation]], it can create a [[class divide]] by creating demand for more educated people in order to maintain corporate and industrial profitability. Thus the popular demand for education, which in turn drives the cost of education higher through the principle of [[supply and demand]], as people would want to be part of the new economic elite. Higher costs for education lead to a situation where only the people with enough money to pay for education can receive sufficient education to qualify for the better-paying jobs that mass-development brings about. This restricts poorer people to lesser-paying jobs but technological development makes some of these jobs obsolete (for example, by introducing electronic machines to take over a job, such as creating a series of machines such as lawn mowers to make people such as gardeners obsolete). This leads to a situation where poorer people cannot improve their lives as easily as they could have in a less developed society.{{citation needed|date=December 2012}} That is partially why institutions such as the [[Center for Global Development]] are searching for "pro-poor" economic policies.<ref name="cgdev.org" />