Component 1 Topic 2 DEFINITIONS

Question 1

What is the main way we measure development

Answer 1

HDI

Question 2

What are ways we can measure economic development

Answer 2

GDP per capita

How many people live below the poverty line

Question 3

What are ways we can measure social development

Answer 3

Literacy rate

If people have access to clean drinking water

Question 4

What are ways we can measure politicaldevelopment

Answer 4

If a country has free elections

How corrupt a county is

Question 5

What is GDP per capita

Answer 5

The total wealth of a country divided by the total population to show the average wealth per person

Question 6

What is the poverty line

Answer 6

The amount of people that live on less than $1.25 a day

Question 7

What is inequality

Answer 7

How equally wealth is shared among the people

Question 8

What us safe water

Answer 8

What percentage of the population has access to clean drinking water within a 1km radius

Question 9

What is literacy rate

Answer 9

The % of the population over 15 that can read an write

Question 10

What is corruption

Answer 10

Corruption is measured using the corruption index

Question 11

When a country develops do the birth and fertility rates increase or decrease

Answer 11

Decrease

Question 12

When a country develops does the average life expectancy increase or decrease

Answer 12

Increase

Question 13

When a country develops are there more young or old people

Answer 13

More old people, the amount of young people decreases

Question 14

What are some of the reasons Malawi can’t develop

Answer 14

It's landlocked 
The terms of trade
Colonialism/cash crops
Global trade
Pollution
Rural isolation 
Living with climate change

Question 15

What are rostow’s 5 stages of development

Answer 15

Traditional society
Pre conditions for take off
Take off
Drive to maturity 
Age of high mass consumption

Question 16

What is Frank’s Dependency Theory

Answer 16

Developing countries depend on developed countries as they are the ones they sell their goods to. This means that richer countries make profits by selling their goods back to poorer countries for a higher price than the brought it for

Question 17

What are the three types of countries

Answer 17

Developed
Emerging
Developing

Question 18

What are bottom up schemes?

Answer 18

Small scale schemes that work with local villages to best suit their needs. They often only have positive impacts. Their aims are to make daily life easier for the local community

Question 19

What are top down schemes?

Answer 19

Schemes lead by governments or NGOs that build big projects like dams to try and make a positive impact to the people and the economy. These can either do well or fail like the Akosombo dam. They often have positive and negative effects

Question 20

Out of top down and bottom up schemes, which one is better?

Answer 20

Bottom up schemes are usually better