development dynamics

Question 1

What is development

Answer 1

use of resources to improve the standard of living

Question 2

what is economic development

Answer 2

total value of goods and services provided

Question 3

what is social development

Answer 3

improvement in quality of life, social well being and social injustice

Question 4

what is political development

Answer 4

level of democracy and freedom

Question 5

what is the human development index (HDI)

Answer 5

Gives country a value between 0-1 on life expectancy, education and income.
It is a more accurate way of measuring development

Question 6

what is purchasing power parity

Answer 6

GDP given in terms of what it can buy using local prices

Question 7

what is corruption perception index

Answer 7

Scale from 10 to 0 and helps people decide where investment is safest

Question 8

what is gross domestic product (GDP)

Answer 8

The total value of goods and services in a nation measured over a year per person

Question 9

other ways of measuring development

Answer 9

Infant mortality, literacy rate, doctors per 100, salary, birth rate, death rate

Question 10

how is the world divided

Answer 10

It is divided by the Brant line with the wealthy countries in the north and unwealthy in the south

Question 11

what is the birth rate indicator

Answer 11

number of live births per 1000

Question 12

what is the death rate indicator

Answer 12

number of deaths per 1000

Question 13

what is the fertility rate indicator

Answer 13

average number of births per woman

Question 14

what is the maternal mortality rate indicator

Answer 14

number of mothers per 100000 who die in childbirth

Question 15

what is the infant mortality rate indicator

Answer 15

number of children per 100 live births who died before there first birthday

Question 16

what is the life expectancy rate indicator

Answer 16

average number of years a person can expect to live

Question 17

features of a developed countries population pyramid

Answer 17

• barrel shape
• young dependents and economically active equal
• high life expectancy
• few elderly dependents

Question 18

features of a developing countries population pyramid

Answer 18

• wide base lots of young dependents
• narrow economically active
• high death rate
• narrow old people

Question 19

features of a emerging countries population pyramid

Answer 19

• pretty wide base
• large amount of economically active
• narrow old dependents

Question 20

what is the development gap

Answer 20

the difference in standards of living between the worlds richest and poorest

Question 21

what is the champagne glass distribution

Answer 21

wine glass split into 5 Quintiles of 20% telling us what amount of the worlds riches each sector has

Question 22

location of countries

Problems
How it effects country’s development

Answer 22

cut of from sea trade, takes longer to sell, costs more for food

more money spent on selling items

Question 23

natural hazards

Problems
How it effects country’s development

Answer 23

destruction, reduced quality of life

costly to repair infrastructure

Question 24

poor climate

Problems
How it effects country’s development

Answer 24

not much will grow, more pests and disease

less money from taxes, affect the ability of population to stay healthy

Question 25

limited water supply Problems How it effects country's development

Answer 25

people are ill, conflict, reduces income war can take money, woman have to travel far meaning they don't work

Question 26

raw materials Problems How it effects country's development

Answer 26

make less money don't have money to develop them, if they could process then their economy would be boosted

Question 27

the 5 steps to Rostows model of economic development

Answer 27

1) Traditional society (work in agriculture) 2) Pre-take off society (farming to manufacturing) 3) Take off stage (growth is rapid. investment and technology create new industry's) 4) Drive to maturity (period of growth. produce consumer goods) 5) Age of high mass consumption (consumers enjoy wide range of goods)

Question 28

what does Franks dependency model show

Answer 28

The core is the developed countries and the periphery the other areas. The periphery depends on the core for its market. Periphery sell raw materials to the core and the core processes them for profit

Question 29

how factors affect how globalization came about

Answer 29

``` Inter-dependence Volumes and variety of trade Technology Flows of investment Outsourcing culture through media companies ```

Question 30

how does Inter-dependence create globalisation

Answer 30

countries depend on each other like the UK relies on India for its tea, India relies on UK for jobs from tea

Question 31

how does Volumes and variety of trade create globalisation

Answer 31

India has intellectuals and France a large coast line

Question 32

how does Technology create globalisation

Answer 32

can have conferences overseas giving easier access to each other

Question 33

how does Flows of investment create globalisation

Answer 33

TNCs-money flows all round the world

Question 34

how does Outsourcing create globalisation

Answer 34

TNCs factories in Asian countries

Question 35

how does culture through media companies create globalisation

Answer 35

cold-play in shanghai

Question 36

how does culture through media companies create globalisation

Answer 36

cold-play in shanghai

Question 37

what is Foreign Direct Investment

Answer 37

In the 1990s US and European TNCs began to invest in Asia because of the cheap labor, less educated and large workforce. manufacturing went from developed to developing

Question 38

what is the primary sector

Answer 38

farmer

Question 39

what is the secondary sector

Answer 39

making something with raw materials. Factorys

Question 40

what is the tertiary sector

Answer 40

provide a service

Question 41

what is the Quaternary sector

Answer 41

very skilled jobs

Question 42

Top-down and Bottom-up (scale)

Answer 42

large scale small scale

Question 43

Top-down and Bottom-up (aims)

Answer 43

unsustainable, creates problems for community's, short term more sustainable, benefits community's, low cost

Question 44

Top-down and Bottom-up (funding)

Answer 44

TNCs NGOs

Question 45

Top-down and Bottom-up (technology)

Answer 45

expensive, complex basic, easy fix

Question 46

Top-down and Bottom-up (decision making)

Answer 46

government local people

Question 47

Top-down and Bottom-up (decision making)

Answer 47

government local people

Question 48

Economic TNC ads dis

Answer 48

multiplier affect | take profit back

Question 49

Social TNC ads dis

Answer 49

create jobs | exploitation of cheap labor

Question 50

Environmental TNC ads dis

Answer 50

air and water pollution

Question 51

what is bottom up development

Answer 51

community development

Question 52

what is a TNC

Answer 52

a firm that owns or controls production in more than one country through foreign direct investment

Question 53

what is top down development

Answer 53

government development