Development

Question 1

Name two things associated with a good infrastructure

Answer 1

Transport and Utilities

Question 2

Name two examples of public services

Answer 2

Health, Education

Question 3

What does a high life expectancy involve?

Answer 3

Low birth rate, low death rate

Question 4

What is associated with a high GDP/head?

Answer 4

Well developed trade, big businesses

Question 5

What are things which are associated with a good quality of life?

Answer 5

High employment, good quality of housing

,high income,low Gini index (small wealth gap)

Question 6

What is associated with poverty?

Answer 6

Crime,poor housing,high Gini index (large wealth gap),

Question 7

What is associated with high unemployment?

Answer 7

Primary sector jobs, low pay

Question 8

What is associated with Low GDP/head?

Answer 8

Poor trade, debt

Question 9

Name a few things associated with a LEDC

Answer 9

Few public services, poor water supply, unstable government

Question 10

What does GDP stand for and what does it mean?

Answer 10

Gross Domestic Product (per head): the total income of a country divided by population

Question 11

What is the newest method to discover how developed a country is?

Answer 11

HDI

Question 12

What does HDI stand for?

Answer 12

Human Development Index

Question 13

At the moment who has the highest and lowest HDI?

Answer 13

Norway,South Sudan

Question 14

What is the HDI based upon?

Answer 14

A mathematical formula involving:
GDI (measure of wealth)
Number if Education years (schools+jobs)
Life expectancy (age and food,clean water etc.)

Question 15

What does GDI stand for? What does it mean?

Answer 15

Gross Domestic Income: a measure of wealth of the people

Question 16

What happens as a country developed?

Answer 16

Birth rate decreases steadily
Morality decreases quickly at first, then slower
Provision of doctors increase

Question 17

Define the Geography of Development

Answer 17

The study of the quality of life and the standard of living of the human population and the way they change over time

Question 18

What stops a county’s ability to grow?

Answer 18

The population growing to quickly

Question 19

In what continent are fertility rates very high?

Answer 19

Africa

Question 20

What are children seen as in Africa? And why?

Answer 20

Asset, as they can work and bring in money

Question 21

What are the four different sections in the box analogy of human development ?

Answer 21

Aspiring to buy: Pair of shoes

Bike, Car , Holiday (aeroplane)

Question 22

In 1906 how was the development on a development table spread out?

Answer 22

2 billion aspired to buy a pair of shoes
1 billion (west) aspired to buy a car
(Massive gap)

Question 23

What was the total population in 2010?

Answer 23

7 billion

Question 24

What was the spread of development in a development table in 2010?

Answer 24

2 billion aspired to buy shoes
3 billion aspired to buy a bike
1 billion aspired to buy a car
1 billion (west) aspired to go on a holiday

Question 25

Why is having a bike so important?

Answer 25

Carry things to market and earn money to buy other things | Fetch+carry water longer distances, this is often children's work so they don't go to school

Question 26

What was the spread of development in a development table in 2050 if the birth rate falls as infant mortality falls?

Answer 26

No one would aspire to buy shoes 4 billion would aspire to buy a bike 3 billion would aspire to buy a car 2 billion (inc. west) spire to go on holiday abroad

Question 27

What would the population be in 2050 is the birth rate falls as infant mortality falls?

Answer 27

9 billion

Question 28

What was the spread of development in a development table in 2050 if the birth rate doesn't fall as infant mortality stays high?

Answer 28

2 billion would aspire to buy shoes 4 billion would aspire to buy a bike 3 billion would aspire to buy a car 2 billion (inc. west) would aspire to go on holiday

Question 29

What would the population be in 2050 if the birth rate doesn't fall as infant mortality stays high?

Answer 29

11 billion

Question 30

Who created the development table?

Answer 30

Hans Rosling