Development Flashcards
(37 cards)
What is development
Having diffident resources and tech to improve the standard of living and quality of life of a country
Explain GNI/Capita
The expected net worth of a person
GDP
The amount of goods and services produced in a year in a country 🥘 👮♀️👷♂️🕵️👩⚕️👩🌾
Stand for:
MEDC
More economically developed country
What does GNI stand for
Gross 🤮 National 🗺️ income 💰
Stand for:
LEDC
Less economically developed countries
Advantages of Developement
- better infrastructure🚊
- more job👩🏫
- better standard of living 🧘♀️
Disadvantage of Development
- less jobs
- deforestation
- westernisation
- pollution
What is scale of development
To what extent is the development project, developing the county. Is it just a person or the whole nation.
Name a development project by the government in SA
South Africa development community
SADC
What does a economic indicator measure
How well a county is doing economically
What are the economical indicators
GDP
GNP
HDI
Gini co-efficient
What is GNP
Earnings that the county has made including foreign ones.
What does social indicators measure
Quality of life
What is Human development index
Indicates the level of human development
- life expectancy
- level of education
- GDP/per capita
What does 0 mean in a HDI
Worst 😀
Little human development
What does the Gini co-efficient look at
The distribution of wealth
What does 0 mean in the Gini co-efficient
0 means an equal wealth distribution
Good 👍🏾
What does social indicators measure
The Quality of life
What are ways to measure quality of life (Social indicators)
Population
Availability of water and elec
Education and literacy rate
Demographic indicators
Infant mortality rate
Life expectancy
Literacy rate
Demographic indicators- what does it measure
Statistics of a country 📊
Factors that affect development
History
Access to resources
Trade imbalances
