Development Flashcards
(19 cards)
What is a developed country?
A country where people live well, with good homes, schools, and jobs.
Official definition: countries with high standards of living, advanced infrastructure and strong economies.
What is an emerging country?
A country that’s getting better, with new roads, buildings, and more jobs.
Official definition: countries transitioning between developing and developed, showing rapid improvements in infrastructure.
What is a developing country?
A country that’s still working on getting better, with some people not having good homes or jobs yet.
Official definition: countries with lower standards of living, less advanced infrastructure and economies that are growing but not yet strong.
What does GNI per capita mean?
How much money people in a country make on average.
Official definition: the average income of a country’s citizens.
What does infant mortality rate mean?
How many babies die before they are one year old out of every 1,000 born.
Official definition: the number of babies that do not survive to one year old per 1,000 births.
What is life expectancy?
How long people usually live in a country.
Official definition: the average number of years a person is expected to live.
What is literacy rate?
How many people aged 15 or older can read and write.
Official definition: the percentage of people in a specific age group, typically aged 15 and above, who can read and write.
What does average years of schooling mean?
How many years of school people usually finish.
Official definition: the average number of years of education that individuals aged 25 and older have completed.
What is the Human Development Index (HDI)?
A way to measure how good life is in a country, using money, health, and education.
Official definition: a composite measure of development using GNI per capita, life expectancy and average years of schooling.
Name three things that make it hard for a country to get better.
- Some people having more money than others
- fighting or wars
- leaders stealing money.
Official examples: uneven distribution of income, corruption, conflict.
Name three natural things that make it hard for a country to get better.
Mountains and hills, very hot or cold weather, and not enough natural stuff like water or trees.
Official examples: challenging relief, extreme climate, lack of natural resources.
What is a top-down project?
A big project run by governments or big companies.
Official example: A large-scale project led by governments or major organisations.
Name a top-down project in the DRC.
The Grand Inga Dam.
Official example: The Grand Inga Dam DRC.
Give two good things about the Grand Inga Dam.
It makes lots of electricity.
It can sell electricity to other countries.
Official examples: Provides a reliable source of renewable energy; produces electricity that the DRC can sell to other countries.
Give two bad things about the Grand Inga Dam.
It would flood lots of land.
Many people would lose their homes.
Official examples: It would flood 22,000 hectares of land; 35,000 people would be displaced from their homes.
What is a bottom-up project?
A small project run by local people or groups.
Official example: A small-scale project led by local communities or NGOs.
Name a bottom-up project in the DRC.
WECAN.
Official example: WECAN DRC.
Give two good things about the WECAN project.
It helps local women earn money.
It helps fight climate change by planting trees.
Official examples: Empowers indigenous women; reduces the impact of climate change through reforestation.
Give two bad things about the WECAN project.
It’s small and only helps a few people.
It can’t stop people from cutting down trees illegally.
Official examples: It is small scale, so it has limited reach; it does not stop illegal logging.
