Development Y9

Question 1

What is development?

Answer 1

Development is about improving peoples lives and allowing individuals and society’s to progress across a wide range of areas.

Question 2

Where are the majority of more developed places?

Answer 2

In Europe and richer parts of Asia

Question 3

Where are the majority of less developed places?

Answer 3

Africa and poorer Asia

Question 4

In 1810 what were all countries

Answer 4

Poor and sick

Question 5

During the industrial revolution what continents income and life expectancy rise

Answer 5

North Africa and europe

Question 6

Two events that saw a life expectancy drop

Answer 6

1st world war and Spanish flu

Question 7

What event happened in the 1920s and 1930s that saw a drop in income

Answer 7

Great depression( western countries still were getting more income and better with health.)

Question 8

Is the inside of a country all the same development wise?

Answer 8

No some parts of a country are a lot less developed than others

Question 9

What percentage of global population lived in extreme poverty in 1800?

Answer 9

85%

Question 10

What percentage of global population lived in extreme poverty in 1850?

Answer 10

80%

Question 11

What percentage of global population lived in extreme poverty in 1900?

Answer 11

70%

Question 12

What percentage of global population lived in extreme poverty in 1950?

Answer 12

55%

Question 13

In what year did more people not live in extreme poverty than did?

Answer 13

1970

Question 14

What happened to Asia and African colonies in the 1940s 50s and 60s

Answer 14

They got independence

Question 15

What is an economic indicator?

Answer 15

Give insight into wealth and jobs

Question 16

What is a social indicator?

Answer 16

Give insight into peoples quality of life

Question 17

What is a Technological indicator ?

Answer 17

Give insight access to new technology

Question 18

What is a composite indicator?

Answer 18

Combined data from two or more indicators into a single statistic

Question 19

Examples of economic indicators

Answer 19

GDP per capita
Percentage of the population employed in agriculture

Question 20

Examples of social indicators

Answer 20

• adult literacy
• percentage of the population with access to treated drinking watet
  -life expectancy

Question 21

Examples of technological indicators

Answer 21

-Number of mobile phones per 100 people
-percentage of the country with aces to electricity

Question 22

Examples of composite indicators

Answer 22

• Human development index (HDI)
• World Happiness index

Question 23

Why could a landlocked country be less developed?

Answer 23

Has no coastline-trickier to trade

Question 24

Why would an a scene of conflict make countries less developed?

Answer 24

Provides no stability for development

Question 25

Why could natural disasters affect the development level?

Answer 25

Can cause severe damage and hold a country back - all money goes towards fixing

Question 26

Why could diseases affect the development level?

Answer 26

Prevent people from contributing to economic growth

Question 27

Why could natural resources affect the development level?

Answer 27

Can make more money off of them

Question 28

Ways to bridge the development gap

Answer 28

Let poor countries develop by themselves Aid Charity Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)

Question 29

Why should we let poor countries develop by themselves

Answer 29

To let them find their natural resources e.g Singapore who used the fact that it is situated in a Malacca Straits, a narrow shipping lane

Question 30

What is aid

Answer 30

Aid is the voluntary transfer of resources from one country(usually developed) to another(usually developing) for altruistic purposes.

Question 31

What is bilateral aid?

Answer 31

Resources that are given from the government of one country directly to the government of another country

Question 32

What is multilateral aid?

Answer 32

Resources that are given by rich countries to supra- national organisations such as the United Nations. Then given to recipient countries..

Question 33

What is emergency aid?

Answer 33

Often given after a natural disaster, it is usually food water medication and tents.

Question 34

What is development aid?

Answer 34

Usually monetary and funds given for development projects E.G healthcare, education, energy

Question 35

Examples of charity

Answer 35

Comic Relief -red noses

Question 36

What is foreign direct investment?(FDI)

Answer 36

Foreign direct investment is when businesses in one country put money into businesses in another country. This is not aid-it is a commercial transaction with a view to make profit.

Question 37

What is an example of foreign direct investment?

Answer 37

Chinese firms have high levels of investment in many countries in Africa since 2000. China have brought benefits to the continent, infrastructure and better services . In return China is able to secure good trade deals that allow it to extract Africa’s valuable natural resources. It also gives China increasing geopolitical power on a world stage and has seen Africa become a huge and growing market for Chinese produced goods.

Question 38

What is tied aid?

Answer 38

Bilateral aid with strings attached- the country given the aid has to sign a trade deal with the other country

Question 39

What is tied aid?

Answer 39

Bilateral aid with strings attached- the country given the aid has to sign a trade deal with the other country