Theme 4: Measures of Development Flashcards

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What are the 5 indicators of development?

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  1. Access to clean water
  2. Number of mobile phones
  3. Access to internet
  4. Energy consumption
  5. Proportional of agricultural jobs
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What are the 3 measurements of development

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  1. Human development index
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3
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What does the HDI look at?

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  1. Education- number of years
  2. Living standards- real GNI
  3. Health- life expectancy at birth
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4
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What is gross national income?

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Gross Domestic Product plus the net income from abroad (remittances)

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5
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How is our final human development index calculated?

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An average of each of the 3 scores (0 to 1) are found

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What are the 2 advantages of the HDI?

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  1. Holistic- so more reliable looks at the 3 most important development factors so more reliable than single indicators.
  2. Comparable- so can know which countries to send aid to
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What are 2 disadvantages of the HDI?

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  1. Unreliable as there are many indicators it does not use.
  2. Ignores distribution of development- making comparison harder.
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What is the iHDI (inequality-adjusted HDI) value

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Takes the normal HDI and then adjusts it to account for different levels of inequality. If the IHDI is below the HDI, then there is inequality.

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What does the multidimensional poverty calculate?

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  1. The number of people in poverty in a country
  2. The average intensity of poverty.
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What does a high MPI show us?

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A country has low levels of development

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What is the multidimensional poverty index?

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Measures education, health and living standard using 10 different indicators. It measures the number of people in poverty and the average intensity of poverty.

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