A Developing World GCSE Flashcards
What are the main features of developing countries?
Have a high fertility rate and birth rate due to a lack of contraceptives.
Death rate is high due to insufficient health care
Life expectancy is low
What are the features of emerging countries?
Fertility rates fall as women are given more career opportunities
Use of contraceptives increase
Health care slowly improves
What are the features of a developed country?
Living standards are high
Death rate and fertility rate is low
Older population
What factors effect the development of a country ?
Cold climates or hot climates will reduce crop yields. Fewer crops leads to starvation and lower incomes
Topography- steeper lands will not produce crops and will make it harder to establish infrastructure
Health - poor healthcare prevents people from working reducing tax
Neo colonialism- colonies that have gained independence are still influenced by bigger countries , these bigger countries exploit them
Government- corruption causes money to go to the wrong places so areas such as the health sector or education sector are not funded
Education - good education produces a skilled workforce leading to better paid jobs and a wealthier country
What does inequality cause ?
Poorer countries cannot fund for education or healthcare and will be forced to become dependent on more wealthier countries .
What is Rostows theory of economic development
Traditional society
Preconditions for take off
Take off
Drive to maturity
Mass consumption
What is Franks dependency theory
Tells us that poorer countries will remain poor due to dependence on larger countries . They will be exploited by the wealthier countries for valuable raw materials
How do TNCS increase globalisation
Links countries together through the production of food and drink
Brings cultures from different countries
Also encourages consumerism bringing peoples lifestyles together
How do governments increase globalisation ?
Tariffs are reduced allowing goods to be transported to different countries cheaper
They invest in land competing with each other to attract TNCs
Privatisation- they hand over services to companies located around the world linking countries with common interests.
CASE STUDY NAURADA RIVER SCHEME
intergovernmental organisation
Pros:
Can afford bigger scale profits meaning the benefits cam reach more people. The Dam provided 3.5 billion litres of drinking water and HEP
Provided lots of people with jobs
Can provide long term development
Cons-
If government is corrupt funding for these projects will go somewhere else
The scheme did not help everyone as 59 percent of the population did not have access to any electrical devices therefore the HEP was useless
It was extremely energy intensive
The building of the dam flooded crops and destroyed 234 villages
Astra slurry scheme case study
Non governmental organisation
Pros:
It addressed the specific needs for a small village unlike the dam . Everyone involved as benefited
The gas produced for cooking allowed children the time to go to school instead of finding wood for a fire
Local materials were used and the scheme employed villagers
Pollution is decreased and the villagers lead a healthy life
Cons:
Small scale means it makes little difference as there are lots of people in thousands of villages that still live bad lifestyles
NGOS can struggle working together making the schemes hard to actually execute
