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what is the definition of quality of life?

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the standard of health, money and happiness experienced by an individual or group of people
- e.g work, financial material and emotional wellbeing?

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what is the definition of standard of living?

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the level of wealth, comfort, material good and necessities available to a certain socio-economic class or certain area

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what is GNI per capita?

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what are 2 limitations of using GNI per capita to measure development?

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  1. doesn’t take into account illegal, black market activity
  2. doesn’t look at social indicators (e.g life expectancy and literacy rate)
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what is the definition of development?

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the process of a country in terms of economic growth, the use of technology and quality of life

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what are 2 limitations of using birth rate as a measure of development?

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  1. can be influenced by government policies (e.g 1 child rule in china)
  2. LIC’s birthrates are not always registered so are given as estimates
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what are the 5 factors affecting the development gaps?

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  1. tropical diseases
  2. natural disasters
  3. landlocked
  4. trade
  5. colonialism
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what are 3 physical factors that are affecting the development gap?

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  1. tropical diseases (malaria)
  2. natural disasters
  3. landlocked
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what is an economic factor that is affecting the development gap?

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trade

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what is a social factor that is affecting the development gap?

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colonialism

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How does tropical diseases affect the development gap?

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increase in tropical diseases –> affects ability of population staying healthy to work –> less people getting paid –> less tax

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How does natural disasters affect the the development gap?

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increase in natural disasters–> money spent on repairing damages –> slows development –> less money in economy to invest in services such as health care

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how does a country being landlocked affect the development gap.

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landlocked means no ports near ocean –> so have to pay other countries or use more expensive ways of transport in order to trade –> lose profit –> less money to develop country

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how does trade affect the development gap?

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LICs–> sell primary products = less value –> they lower their prices in order to compete with other LICs–> means they are not making much profit
HIC are buying for less and selling for more.

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How does colonialism affect the development gap?

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IN past developed countries stripped LICs of their resources –> meant that LICs were left with barren land –> no resources to trade –> not making money –> can’t develop

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what are 6 methods for reducing the development gap?

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  1. aid
  2. fair trade
  3. microfinance
  4. intermediate technologies
  5. debt relief
  6. economic investment and industrial development
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what is aid?

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when a country or NGO donates resources to another country to help it develop

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what is an example of aid?

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Oxfam’s goat aid given to Malawi

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what is a negative of aid?

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is not successful if it is not long- term or sustainable

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how do aid reduce the development gap?

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education/teaching of skills —> literacy rate increases —> ppl get higher skilled and paid jobs —> more tax to gov

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what is microfinance?

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when small loans are given to people in LICs who may not be able to get the from traditional banks

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what is an example of microfinance?

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$200 given to women in Bangladesh to buy phones and rent them out

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what is a negative of microfinance?

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businesses could fail meaning they can’t pay back the loans

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what is debt relief?

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when a some or all a country’s debts are cancelled, reduced or interest rates are lowerd

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what is an example of debt relief?
Zambia's $4 billion debt cancelled in 2005 so the country had enough money to start a free health care scheme in 2006
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what is a negative of debt relief?
some countries don't spend the money effectively on developing
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what is intermediate technologies?
giving LICs tools, machines and systems that improve their quality of life - have to be affordable, simple to use and cheap to maintain
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what is an example of intermediate technologies?
solar powered LED lights used in parts of Nepal
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what is fair trade?
farmers getting a fair price for their goods
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what is a negative of intermediate technologies?
LICs may not be able to afford them or may struggle to maintain them - some technologies depend on climate (e.g solar powered)
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what is an example of fair trade?
Fair trade Premium - where money is given to local governments to develop the area where the goods come from (e.g.building schools . health centres)
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what are 2 negatives of fair trade?
- only a tiny proportion of the extra money goes to the original producer - products are expensive so less people buy them
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what is economic investment?
when countries and TNCs invest money and expertise to increase profits
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what does industrial development mean?
moving from a mainly agricultural based sector to a manufacturing economy
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what is an example of economic investment and industrial development?
USA Apple headquarters invested in China
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what are 3 negatives of economic investment and industrial development?
- factories increase carbon emissions - some TNCs pay workers poorly - poor working conditions
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what is a trans-national corporation?
companies which are global. -usually have their headquarters in HICs - and factories in LICs
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list 4 reasons why TNCs chose to locate in other countries especially LICs?
1. pay less tax in another country 2. cheaper labour , exploiting workers, pay workers less 3. relaxed environmental laws so can produce more products 4. access to wider market, more exposure
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what is the definition of industrial development?
the development of jobs from primary sectors to secondary and tertiary sectors
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what are the 5 different types of aid
Emergency aid Developmental aid NGOs Top-down approach Bottom - up approach
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what is emergency aid?
Usually follows natural disaster, war or conflict
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what is developmental aid?
long term aid that promotes progress within a country aim: improve quality of life ---> by providing safe water, education or improvements to infrastructure
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what is aid by NGOs?
aid that isn't from government but from independent organisations
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What is top-down aid?
development projects imposed from governments
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what is bottom-up aid?
development projects that start and work from the grass-roots?
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what is the definition of de-industrialisation?
The decline of a country's traditional manufacturing industry due to exhaustion of raw materials, loss of markets and oversees competition
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what does the primary sector involve?
involves extracting raw materials from the natural environment -e.g farming and miming
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what does the secondary sector consist of?
those that take raw materials produced by the primary sector and process them into manufactured goods and products
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what does the tertiary sector involve?
involves the selling of services and skills
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what does the Quaternary sector consist of?
consists of those industries providing information such as computing ICT and Research & Development
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what did de-industrialisation cause in the UK?
a decline in the secondary sector and an increase in the tertiary and quaternary sector.
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what is the definition of globalisation?
the process of creating more of a connected world, with an increase in the global movements of goods (trade) and people (migration and tourism)
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how has globalisation been made possible?
by the advance and improvements of technology, communications and transport
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what is responsible for the decline in the secondary sector and increase in the tertiary sector in the UK?
Globalisation
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what is a science park?
a group of scientific and technical knowledge based businesses located on a single site.
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what is a business park?
an area of land occupied by a cluster of businesses
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where do science and business parks tend to locate?
1. near universities 2. near transport links 3. at edge of cities
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5 positives of globalisation
1.economic growth 2.cheaper goods and services 3. high value production 4. migration 5. foreign investments
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3 negatives of globalisation
1. outsourcing jobs 2. less manufacturing 3. inequality between low and high paid jobs
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what factoring close down and cause protests.
Dunlop factory
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what is a post industrial economy
where the manufacturing industry declines and is replaced with the growth of the tertiary sector and the corresponding development of the quaternary sector
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what are 5 environmental disadvantages of a post -industrial economy
- creation of waste (pollution) - transporting raw materials cause GHG - visual/ noise pollution - deforestation ---> loss of habitats - degrading soil ---> less soil quality
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what car industry is in Sunderland UK?
Nissan
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