Development

Question 1

What does HDI measure?

Answer 1

Quality of life using factors like life expectancy, literacy rate, income and access to clean water

Question 2

What is birth rate?

Answer 2

The number of births in a year per every 1,000 people in a population

Question 3

What is death rate?

Answer 3

The number of deaths in a year for every thousand people in a population

Question 4

What is GDP(gross domestic product)

Answer 4

monetary meausure of all the goods and services produced in a time period

Question 5

What is GDP per capita?

Answer 5

GDP÷population

Question 6

What is fertility rate?

Answer 6

average number of children per woman

Question 7

What is life expectancy?

Answer 7

the number of years a person can be expected to live

Question 8

What is literacy rate?

Answer 8

The percentage of a country’s people who can read and write

Question 9

What is dependancy ratio?

Answer 9

The number of people too old or too young to be in the workforce compared to those in the workforce

Question 10

What is infant mortality rate?

Answer 10

The percentage of children who die before their first birthday

Question 11

What is India?

Answer 11

A MEDC(more economically developed country) and an emerging nation

Question 12

Where is India located?

Answer 12

Near China and the Middle East. Great position for trade.

Question 13

What is one poor part of India?

Answer 13

BIhar

Question 14

What is one rich part of India?

Answer 14

Maharashtra

Question 15

Explain population pyramids

Answer 15

Poor countries have bigger base as less people llive to old age. They also have lots of children as not all of them may survive. Children often also help with workl.

Rich countries have more even population pyramid as more people live ot an older age and more women get an education and focus on that not family. Farms going out of fashion. Uk has an ageing population.

Question 16

What is outsourcing?

Answer 16

Agreement wher e companies hire another company to be responsible for an activity(helping eachother)

Question 17

What is a FDI(foreign direct investment)?

Answer 17

Things such as BT call centres

Question 18

Explain the positives and negatives of BT call centres

Answer 18

+They do not have to pay the workers as much.

+time zone difference so customers can have 24/7 service

• profit goes to Uk not India
• Some employees ma experience racial abuse

Question 19

Explain the political significance of India

Answer 19

Worlds largest democracy and aprt of G20 and UN(also a BRIC)

Question 20

Explian the social significance of India

Answer 20

Second largest population and worst urban slums among the world

Question 21

Explain the environmental sigbificance of India

Answer 21

Richest biodiversity in the world and worst pollution. 3rd largest producer of greenhouse gasses

Question 22

Explain the cultural significance of India

Answer 22

4 large religions(birthplace) largest film industry(bollywood)

Question 23

Explains Frank’s dependancy model

Answer 23

Poor countries cannot grow(out of date and does not take into account for natural disasters)

Question 24

Explain the Clark-Fisher model

Answer 24

changes in employment through a period of time

Question 25

Explain Rostows theory

Answer 25

1. primary
2. secondary
3. rapid growth and oversea investments
4. growth and technology
5. comfort and society decides how to spend wealth

Question 26

What are the negatives of Rostows theory?

Answer 26

Forgets uniqueness of different countries and it is out of date and based on Europe nit the whole world

Question 27

Brandt line

Answer 27

Line that seperates the poor south from the wealthy north. Outdated and many countries south are now much wealthier than before

Question 28

LIC HIC

Answer 28

low income country and high income country

Question 29

What is Malawi

Answer 29

LEDC. Lots of diseases and problems with agricultural sector

Question 30

What is top down development?

Answer 30

funded by large companies or decisions made by the national government

Local people do not get involved much+

more people impacted+

easy to sustain+

produces new jobs+

could trickle down+

expensive-

does not help people as much-

Question 31

What is bottom up development?

Answer 31

Helps small villages or towns

local people get involved+

government does not make decision

helps people significantly+

cheaper+

helps less people+

harder to sustain-

Question 32

Three Gorges Dam

Answer 32

+used to generate hydroelectric energy for China. Shanghai will be helped which is home to 13 million people. Helping central and eastern.

+environmentally friendly as it produces renewable energy

+job opportunities

+replacing coal so stopping climate change

• high cost(25 billion pounds)
• fishermen ordered to leave and now cannot make a living
• 2million people had to move house
• increased erosion due to less sediment transported
• increased chances of landslides
• habitats disrupted

Question 33

Water aid

Answer 33

Uk company

formed to help people in Africa who need access to clean water

charity

+helps improve peoples lifes durastically

+less wildlife disrupted

+helps Africa to develop

• hard to sustain(a lot of villages are back to how they were before due to lack of money)
• less people helped
• 360million pounds has been wasted on warer infrastructure
• population pressures as size increases(more people want to live there due to access to clean water source)