Theme 6

Question 1

Who found developement gap 1980?

Answer 1

Willy Brandt, 1980

Question 2

Brandt line show?

Answer 2

• Global north (wealthy) + australia

North south divide

Question 3

Ways of measuring wealth inequality?

Answer 3

-GDP
-GNI per person
-Poverty line (% earning less than a certain amount per day)

Question 4

World bank set poverty line at?

Answer 4

-$1.90 a day

Question 5

Limits of GNI per person

Answer 5

-Average not spread or money inequality
-Malawi ($225) some make millions
-Also living costs e.g food is cheaper in some countries

Question 6

What is PPP?

Answer 6

-GNI per person factoring living expenses per country
-E.g Malawi GNI $225
-PPP $780 (prices there r cheap)

Question 7

Rich vs poor stats?

Answer 7

-2016
-Richest 62 wealth=
-Poorest 3.5 billion

wealth unevenly distributed

Question 8

What is the continuum of economic development?

Answer 8

-High income ($12,736+)
-Upper middle ($4,126+)
-Lower Middle ($1026+)
-Low income (less)

Question 9

What shows Brandt line not right?

Answer 9

-NIC india
-Higher GDP than Britain
-India 3.6 trillion
-Britain 3.4 trillion

Question 10

How has development closed?

Answer 10

-MNC (multinational companies)

Question 11

MNC examples

Answer 11

-Tata (steel) Mumbai (100 countries employed)
- Factories in inda (22% of all jobs)
- Ikea, Samsung + Siemens all have factories in india recently

Question 12

How has Brandt line not changed?

Answer 12

-Malawi LIC southern Africa
-Landlocked + relies on tea trade
-But imports high value oil

Question 13

What is globalisation?

Answer 13

-Free flow of goods, people, money and ideas
-E.g Avacodas from Mexico to Uk

interdependance

Question 14

How have countries benefitted from globalisation?

Answer 14

-1990s offered cheap labour
-Manufactered
-Immigration (send money home)
-Bollywood (Mumbai) over 1,000 films in 2013

Question 15

China companies rank 2008 vs 2015

Forbes 2000 companies list

Answer 15

-2008 4th
-2015 2nd (232) companies

Question 16

How MNC help country

Answer 16

-Cheaper labour (lower living costs)
-Products sold cheaper
-Stimulates local economy wth jobs

Question 17

Why NIC emergind so quickly?

Answer 17

-Bangladesh GDP growth rate 4.8%
-High population (china, india, indonesia and Brazil make up 40% of population)
-MNC’s

Question 18

Bangladesh clothing industry 2014 stats?

Answer 18

-Employed 5.5 million
-$28 billion GNI

Question 19

What makes NIC’s?

Answer 19

Foriegn direct investment

MNC’s

Question 20

MNC’s why?

Answer 20

Bangladash wages 95% lower than EU or USA

Question 21

What does GNI affect?

can be used to measure.countries wealth

Answer 21

-Life expectancy
-Literary rates
-Infant mortality wates

invest in own country —> HDI

Question 22

Bangladesh HDI improvement 2000 vs 2014?

Answer 22

-23.2%

Question 23

Economic impacts:

Bangladesh

Answer 23

-Poverty means worse working conditions + longer hours
-Deliberatly employ women (paid less)
-Bangladesh laws children 14+ can work
-12 hour work day
-Living wage £160 month, but earn £25 a month

Question 24

Poverty rate down from 1971?

Bangladesh

Answer 24

80% to 30%

Question 25

Environmental impacts?

Answer 25

-Less strict environmental laws (cheaper) -Waste water in open drains and ditches -Poor construction (2013 building collapse)

Question 26

Building collapse 2013? | Bangladesh

Answer 26

-Rana Plaza collapse -Killed 1,100 people | factory workers