Devlopment Dilemmas

Question 1

GDP per capita

Answer 1

the monetary value of all goods and services produced in an economy in a year and is divided by the number of people

it shows how wealthy a country is in comparison to its population but it doesn’t show how the wealth has been spread out

Question 2

Human Development Index (HDI)

Answer 2

includes income, education and life expectancy and combines them into one number

Question 3

Happy Planet Index (HPI)

Answer 3

this indicator measures how well resources use benefit people in a country without causing long term damage to the environment

Question 4

what were the 5 stages of Rostow’s modernisation theory?

Answer 4

Stage 1 Traditional society - subsistence, barter, agric.
stage 2 Transitional stage - specialization, infrastructure
stage 3 Take off - Industrialisation
stage 4 Drive to maturity - investment, less reliance of imports
stage 5 High mass consumption - service sector becomes dominant

Question 5

what is the dependency theory?

Answer 5

blames developed countries for developing countries lack of development

Question 6

what are the reasons for the dependency theory?

Answer 6

• rich countries interfere with poor countries politics e.g UK + US in Afghan and Iraq
• third world debt; rich countries charge huge interest rates on loans to poor countries, poor countries have to use aid money to repay them
• selling poor countries things they don’t need e.g. coca cola