0. Introduction to development

Question 1

What is the UNDP?

Answer 1

The United nations development program

Question 2

How does the UNDP measure development?

Answer 2

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) classifies countries taking account of their health and education attainments in addition to income, in its Human Development Index (HDI).

Question 3

What is development economics?

Answer 3

• Seeks to analyse the causes and consequences of poverty, inequality and underdevelopment

Question 4

What does a high gini coefficient mean?

Answer 4

It measures inequality on a scale from 0 to 1, where higher values indicate higher inequality.

Question 5

Do developing countries or the western world have a higher gini coefficient on average?

Answer 5

The developing world

Question 6

What are some of the reasons that developing countries have high population growth rates?

Answer 6

• Not having pensions
• High infant mortality rates

Question 7

What are the implications of a high population growth rate in developing countries?

Answer 7

• Pressure on land
• Young economy

Question 8

What are the 7 key features of developing countries?

Answer 8

1. Lower levels of income and productivity
2. Lower levels of human capital
3. Higher levels of inequality
4. Higher population growth rates
5. Large rural populations
6. Worse health and lower life expectancy
7. Greater fractionalisation

Question 9

Why is having a large amount of your population in agriculture a bad thing?

Answer 9

Agriculture is very unproductive, therefore high population in agriculture will create low GDP per capita