Component 1 EQ1 Flashcards
What is India’s GDP per capita?
$1498
True of false?
Malawi’s main exports are primary goods.
Give examples of some that Malawi exports
True,
Examples include tea, coffee beans and sugar
What is the poverty line and give a parameter
The poverty line is the minimum amount of money required by a person to meet their basic daily needs, the World Bank says it is $1.25 per person per day
Name all the stages of Rostow’s economic development model
1-Traditional Society 2-Pre-Take Off Society 3-Take Off Stage 4-Drive to Maturity 5-High Mass Consumption
Give an environmental factor that could hinder a country’s economic development
Being landlocked-having no port makes it difficult to trade with other countries
Lack of natural resources-have to buy from other countries
Climatic hazards-such as hurricanes/tornadoes/cyclones can quickly destroy infrastructure, very expensive to build resistant structures
Climate related disease
Other appropriate answer
Describe Frank’s dependency theory
There are Core, Periphery and Semi-Periphery countries.
Core are the richer countries, who buy raw materials from periphery counties, manufacture them into higher value goods and sell them, therefore making the most money. Periphery countries do not make as much money as they have to rely on selling lower value primary goods
What is a top-down development scheme?
A scheme which governments, TNCs, IGOs,and other large corporations plan and fund for certain intended benefited, and is imposed/built with little or no consultation with affected stakeholders. They are almost always large scale developments. They sometimes have a large environmental impact.
What is a bottom-up development scheme.
A scheme which is designed by experts working with communities to identify their needs, offer assistance and let them control their lives and how the scheme will work and be built. They often involve NGOs, charities or universities. They usually have a much smaller negative impact on the environment if they have one at all.
Give an example of a Top-down development scheme.
Give some details, which could include:
Who funded it? Cost? Cost to run?
Scale and size?
Who was it built by (local or not)?
Give the advantages of the scheme
Give the disadvantages of the scheme, and state whether they were predicted to happen or not,
Could include environmental, political, social, economic effects
Any appropriate scheme, in the following format: e.g.
Sardar Sarovar Dam
Funded by World Bank, Japanese Banks, and Indian State Government
Provides 3.5 billion litres of drinking water a day, mostly to cities
Provides clean hydroelectric electricity
Canals provide irrigation to 1.8 million hectares of farmland, helping to grow crops in places sometimes affected by droughts, and maintain animals
234 villages have been flooded, 320,000 people have been forced to move
Few rural families can afford electricity
Good quality farmland has been flooded
The dam has stopped fertile sediment being deposited on flood plains, resulting in land being less and less fertile
Religious and historical sites have been flooded
Large dams can cause earthquakes and seismic activity
How do you answer a question with the Assess command word?
Use evidence
Define Literacy Rate
The percentage of the population aged 15 and over who can read and write
In a population pyramid, what does a wide base indicate?
And what type of country is this shape typical of?
High birth rates in that country, typical of a developing country
In the new Geography GCSE, are countries categorised as:
Developing, Emerging, and Developed
OR
Less Economically Developed Countries(LEDCs) and More Economically Developed Countries(MEDCs)
Developing, Emerging, Developed
Name the 5 BRICS countries, and state why the group was created
Brazil Russia India China South Africa
The group is formed of 5 newly industrialised countries with fast growing economies to encourage collaboration and sustain development. They also created the New Development Bank.
What is the Gini coefficient?
It measures the extent to which the distribution of income is unequal within a country and how it changes over time
