Development

Question 1

Define development?

Answer 1

Development is a country progress on their wealth social and political status

Question 2

What is life expectancy?

Answer 2

Average number of years you are expected to live

Question 3

What is measures of in quality?

Answer 3

Show how equally wealth is shared among the population. Looks at the percentage of GDP owned by 10% wealthiest and poorest

Question 4

What is Human Development Index (HDI)

Answer 4

Un’s alternative method for measuring development. It uses PPP, literacy rates, length or schooling and life expectancy to calculate a figure between 0 - 1

Question 5

What is % substance farming?

Answer 5

% of the population who farm to live (produce food to feed themselves as their occupation

Question 6

What is % below poverty line?

Answer 6

% of the population who earn less than $1.25 a day (minimum required to meet basics)

Question 7

What is GDP per capita?

Answer 7

Average income of a country divided by its population

Question 8

What is access to safe drinking water?

Answer 8

Percentage of the population with access to piped water within 1km

Question 9

What is literacy rate?

Answer 9

% of the population aged 15 and above who can read and write

Question 10

What is birth rate?

Answer 10

Number of births per 1000 people per year in a country

Question 11

What is death rate?

Answer 11

Number of deaths per 1000 people per year in a country

Question 12

What is purchasing power party?

Answer 12

This adjusts GDP in a country to take into account how much the money will buy (the cost of living)

Question 13

What is fertility rate?

Answer 13

Average number of births per women in a country

Question 14

What is maternal mortality?

Answer 14

Number of mothers per 10 000 who die in childbirth

Question 15

What is infant mortality?

Answer 15

Number of children per 1000 who die before their 1st birthday

Question 16

What is corruption perception index?

Answer 16

Uses a scale from 0 (honest) to 10 (very corrupt). Corrupt countries are more likely to invest in money/aid on purchasing weapons or bribing officials

Question 17

What is Gini corfficient?

Answer 17

Measure the extent which the distribution of income is unequal in a country and how this changes over time. It is a ration between 0 and 1. 0 is completely equal and 1 means only 1 person has all the wealth.

Question 18

What does HDI include?

Answer 18

Life expectancy, literacy rate, GDP per capita

Question 19

What are BRICs

Answer 19

Brazil, Russia, India, China

Question 20

What is population structure?

Answer 20

Population structure is the number of people of each sex in each age group.

Question 21

In Rostow’s model what are the 5 levels of development?

Answer 21

The traditional society, pre-conditions for take off, take off,the drive to maturity, high mass consumption.

Question 22

What is the traditional society?

Answer 22

Farming, lack of development, based of religion and military, little trade.

Question 23

What is pre-conditions for the take off?

Answer 23

Leaders motivate people to start banks, public transport, currency.

Question 24

What is take off?

Answer 24

Textile, clothes, money develops and core areas develop.

Question 25

What is the drive to maturity?

Answer 25

Growing rapidly, industrialisation.

Question 26

What is high mass consumption?

Answer 26

Luxury needed as a resource.

Question 27

What is frank dependency theory?

Answer 27

Franks theory is the idea that the MEDCs are exploiting the LEDCs so they can take their resources for s cheaper and trade at a higher price, therefore becoming richer.

Question 28

What is primary industries?

Answer 28

Extract or use the earths natural resources.

Question 29

What is secondary industries?

Answer 29

Take the raw materials and process them into manufactured items.

Question 30

What is high tech secondary?

Answer 30

Use advanced technology in manufacturing.

Question 31

What is tertiary industries?

Answer 31

The services sector. Eg teachers, retail.

Question 32

What is quaternary industries.

Answer 32

Provide information services such as computing, this is apart of the knowledge economy requires high level of education and training.

Question 33

What re top down projects?

Answer 33

Large scale approaches to development that are planned by national governments, other countries and people in power.

Question 34

What are bottom up projects?

Answer 34

Small scale projects run by local people to help themselves.

Question 35

What is AID?

Answer 35

Any help given to another country eg.food, medical, money expeditions.

Question 36

What is longitude and latitude lines?

Answer 36

Imaginary lines that divide up the earth.

Question 37

What is Latitude?

Answer 37

The line that runs from east to west.

Question 38

What is longitude?

Answer 38

The line that runs from north to south.

Question 39

What are longitude lines also known for?

Answer 39

Meridian lines