Development Flashcards
Name features in a DEVELOPED COUNTRY!!!!!!!
Good quality of life e.g (high incomes,high employment, good quality housing), Good public services (Health, education), Good Infrastructure (Transport, Utilities), High life expectancy(low birth rate, low death rate), High GDP (Big businesses , well developed trades)
Name features in a LESS DEVELOPED COUNTRY!!!!!
Poverty (Crime, poor housing, large wealth gap), Low GDP( debt, poor trade), High unemployment (low pay, primary sector jobs) poor water supply, few public services, unstable government
Formula for GDP (Gross Domestic Product)
Population
How does the GDP give a false impression sometimes
Most of the earnings are in the hands of a few people and many are very poor.
What’s the new way to measure development and what is the really complicated things in the formula.
HDI (Human Development Index). formula: GDP, Number of years of education, life expectancy
Who has the highest HDI & the lowest
Norway: Highest
South Sudan: Lowest
What happens when the countries development increases in the graph
infant mortality decreases
birth rate decreases steadily
the numbers of doctors increase