Development Flashcards
What does HDI measure?
Quality of life using factors like life expectancy, literacy rate, income and access to clean water
What is birth rate?
The number of births in a year per every 1,000 people in a population
What is death rate?
The number of deaths in a year for every thousand people in a population
What is GDP(gross domestic product)
monetary meausure of all the goods and services produced in a time period
What is GDP per capita?
GDP÷population
What is fertility rate?
average number of children per woman
What is life expectancy?
the number of years a person can be expected to live
What is literacy rate?
The percentage of a country’s people who can read and write
What is dependancy ratio?
The number of people too old or too young to be in the workforce compared to those in the workforce
What is infant mortality rate?
The percentage of children who die before their first birthday
What is India?
A MEDC(more economically developed country) and an emerging nation
Where is India located?
Near China and the Middle East. Great position for trade.
What is one poor part of India?
BIhar
What is one rich part of India?
Maharashtra
Explain population pyramids
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.
What is outsourcing?
Agreement wher e companies hire another company to be responsible for an activity(helping eachother)
What is a FDI(foreign direct investment)?
Things such as BT call centres
Explain the positives and negatives of BT call centres
+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
Explain the political significance of India
Worlds largest democracy and aprt of G20 and UN(also a BRIC)
Explian the social significance of India
Second largest population and worst urban slums among the world
Explain the environmental sigbificance of India
Richest biodiversity in the world and worst pollution. 3rd largest producer of greenhouse gasses
Explain the cultural significance of India
4 large religions(birthplace) largest film industry(bollywood)
Explains Frank’s dependancy model
Poor countries cannot grow(out of date and does not take into account for natural disasters)

Explain the Clark-Fisher model
changes in employment through a period of time

