Development Flashcards
What are some basic human rights
Clean water
Food
Vote
Education
Shelter
Freedom of speech
Access to health
Clothes/coverage
Fair trial
Be safe
Hat is development
Is a process of change and growth in a place. It should be for the better but not always
Wha5 does development often refer to
It often refers to an increase in wealth for a country and its citizens but it is also associated with improving peoples quality of life or standard of living
How do we measure development
Measuring may include looking at health,education, culture, political freedom and wealth of the country
MEDCs and examples
More economically developed countries
Such as France and New Zealand and the USA
LEDCs
Less economically developed countries
Such as China, Brazil, and Algeria
What is the name of the split between rich and poor countries
The Brandt line or the north,south divide
Where does the north south divide run
Cross Mexico under Florida over the north of Africa up over Mongolia and China down past Japan around Malaysia around Australia 
What are some economic indicators of development
Gross national product
GNP per capita
Trade balance
Energy consumption
Primary employment
What are some social indicators of development?
Birth rate
Death rate
Life expectancy
Literacy rate
Infant mortality rate
Calories per person per day
People per doctor
Gross national product
The total of all money produced per year by a country’s workers
GNP
The GNP shared out equally among the people of a country
Trade balance
The volume,value and type of imports and exports
Energy consumption
The amount of energy which each person in the country uses per year(oil/electricity)
People per doctor
The number of patients divided by the number of doctors
Calories per person per day
The number of kilocalories(kcals) each person in the country takes in each day
Infant mortality rate
The number of children per year out of every 1000 born alive that die before they reach the age of one
Literacy rates
The number of adults who can read and write in every 100 people
Primary employment
The percentage of people in the country employed in primary occupations
Life expectancy
The average number of years a person can expect to live
Death rate
The number of deaths per year per thousand people
Birth rate
The number of births per year per thousand people
What is a good example of an anomaly in terms of and medic that is not developed
Saudi Arabia has a large GNP ( lots of money) from its oil but it doesn’t share it equally amongst its people so only a minority is rich
How can correlation of scatter graph be
Negative-weak or strong
Positive-weak or strong
