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Question 1

What does HIC stand for?

Answer 1

Higher income country

Question 2

What does NEE stand for?

Answer 2

Newly emerging economy

Question 3

What does LIC stand for?

Answer 3

Lower income country

Question 4

Give 4 factors which influence development:

Answer 4

Access to healthcare
Literacy rate of adults
Employment rate and job security
Work-life balance
Preparation of natural disasters
How happy/content people are with their lives
Average Wealth/Income

Question 5

How do Food and Water Security have an impact on Development?

Answer 5

1) Women and Children spend 140million hours a day collecting water.
2) In 2015, almost 800 million people in the world did not have
enough food to lead a healthy, active life.
3) At any one time, ½ of the world’s hospital beds are occupied by patients suffering from water borne diseases such as Cholera
4) 750 million people around the world lack access to safe water –
approximately 1 in 9. Most of these live in rural areas.

Question 6

What is the difference between GDP and GDP per Capita?

Answer 6

GDP per Capita is the GDP divided by the total population

Question 7

What is GDP?

Answer 7

GDP (Gross Domestic Product) is the total value of goods and services produced within a country per year.

Question 8

What is HDI?

Answer 8

HDI is a score out of 1.0 calculated for each country based on life expectancy, years in education, and income.

Question 9

Why is using HDI as a measure of development more reliable?

Answer 9

It takes many things into account, such as health and education (not just wealth).

Question 10

The highest GDP per capita is found in N____ A______, much of E_____, N__ Z______ and A________, oil-rich states in the M_____ East and a_______ Asian economies such as Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore.

Answer 10

North America
Europe
New Zealand
Australia
Middle East
advanced Asian

Question 11

What is the Gini Coefficient?

Answer 11

The Gini Coefficient is used to show the extent of income inequality within a country.

Question 12

What does GDHI stand for?

Answer 12

Gross Disposable Household Income

Question 13

What does GDHI (Gross Disposable Household Income) mean?

Answer 13

The amount of money left to spend after tax, rent/ mortgage, bills etc. per head in the UK.

Question 13

Briefly describe the distribution of GCHI in the UK:

Answer 13

Top 2/3 of England and Wales are lower than bottom 1/3.
Scotland is more.
Northern Ireland less

Question 14

Give at least 4/6 of the impacts of uneven development

Answer 14

Access to housing
Health
Education
Employment
Technology
Food & water scarcity

Question 15

What does FDI stand for?

Answer 15

Foreign Direct Investment

Question 16

What is FDI (Foreign Direct Investment)?

Answer 16

When a company invests in a company in a different country and therefore has some control over what that company does.

Question 17

What is Debt Relief?

Answer 17

Giving money to relieve countries of debt.
Reducing the amount of money a country owns.

Question 18

What is Fair Trade?

Answer 18

Trade where producers receive better prices, conditions, and investments.
Takes up just 1% of total world trade.

Question 19

What is International Aid?

Answer 19

Where a country voluntarily transfers resources to another - can be a vital income for many lower developed countries and those in emergencies.

Question 20

What is trade?

Answer 20

Exchange of goods.

Question 21

What does NGO stand for?

Answer 21

Non-governmental organsiation

Question 22

What is a top-down strategy?

Answer 22

Large-scale projects that aim at national-level or regional-level development.
More expensive.
More sophisticated technology.
Development happens through the actions of governments and TNCs.

Question 23

What is a bottom-up strategy?

Answer 23

Local-scale projects that aim to benefit a village or small group of communities.
Cheaper, but still usually funded by the community.
Appropriate technology that local people can learn to operate and repair.
Development happens through actions of NGOs working with communities.

Question 24

What does TNC stand for?

Answer 24

Transnational Corporations

Question 25

Give a pro and con of bottom-up strategies:

Answer 25

Pro) Targets specific needs of individual people (eg. supplying clean water from a well which would improve health and crop yields).
Con) The promotion of development is limited because governments in developing countries rely on the work of charities/ MGOs to develop solutions.

Question 26

Name 2 primary jobs

Answer 26

Farming
Mining

Question 27

Name 2 secondary jobs

Answer 27

Factory
Nuclear powerstations
Mechanics

Question 28

Name 2 tertiary jobs

Answer 28

Teaching
Transport
Office
Call centre
University lecturer
Restaurant

Question 29

Name 2 quaternary jobs

Answer 29

IT
Scientist

Question 30

What is the order of different job sectors

Answer 30

Tertiary -> Primary -> Secondary -> Quaternary

Question 31

What is outsourcing?

Answer 31

Hiring a party outside a company to perform services or create goods that were traditionally performed in-house by the company’s own employees and staff.