Development

Question 1

Economic indicators of development

Answer 1

-GNI per capita (total amount of money earned in a country, divided by the population to give an average)
-poverty line (number of people earning less than $1.90 a day)

Question 2

Social indicators of development

Answer 2

-life expectancy
-literacy rate (percentage of adults who can read and write)
-infant/child mortality rate (number of babies who die under 1/5 years old per 1000 born)
-access to safe water

Question 3

Environmental indicators of development

Answer 3

-pollution levels
-green space (reflects government attitude)

Question 4

Reducing the development gap - TNC’s

Answer 4

TNC’s (trans national corporations) contribute to foreign direct investment (the cash injected into the country), allowing the positive multiplier effect to occur where more and more businesses are invested into

Question 5

Reducing the development gap - aid

Answer 5

-fair trade (a charity that pays farmers a fair wage for their crops, improving local communities)
-water aid (construction of clean water pumps)
-micro finance loans

Question 6

Reducing the development gap - projects

Answer 6

Large-scale, expensive constructions that try to improve a fundamental need (three gorges dam, China)