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1
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Define development?

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Development is a country progress on their wealth social and political status

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What is life expectancy?

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Average number of years you are expected to live

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What is measures of in quality?

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Show how equally wealth is shared among the population. Looks at the percentage of GDP owned by 10% wealthiest and poorest

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What is Human Development Index (HDI)

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Un’s alternative method for measuring development. It uses PPP, literacy rates, length or schooling and life expectancy to calculate a figure between 0 - 1

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What is % substance farming?

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% of the population who farm to live (produce food to feed themselves as their occupation

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What is % below poverty line?

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% of the population who earn less than $1.25 a day (minimum required to meet basics)

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What is GDP per capita?

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Average income of a country divided by its population

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What is access to safe drinking water?

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Percentage of the population with access to piped water within 1km

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What is literacy rate?

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% of the population aged 15 and above who can read and write

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What is birth rate?

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Number of births per 1000 people per year in a country

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What is death rate?

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Number of deaths per 1000 people per year in a country

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What is purchasing power party?

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This adjusts GDP in a country to take into account how much the money will buy (the cost of living)

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What is fertility rate?

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Average number of births per women in a country

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What is maternal mortality?

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Number of mothers per 10 000 who die in childbirth

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What is infant mortality?

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Number of children per 1000 who die before their 1st birthday

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What is corruption perception index?

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Uses a scale from 0 (honest) to 10 (very corrupt). Corrupt countries are more likely to invest in money/aid on purchasing weapons or bribing officials

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What is Gini corfficient?

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Measure the extent which the distribution of income is unequal in a country and how this changes over time. It is a ration between 0 and 1. 0 is completely equal and 1 means only 1 person has all the wealth.

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What does HDI include?

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Life expectancy, literacy rate, GDP per capita

19
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What are BRICs

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Brazil, Russia, India, China

20
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What is population structure?

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Population structure is the number of people of each sex in each age group.

21
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In Rostow’s model what are the 5 levels of development?

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The traditional society, pre-conditions for take off, take off,the drive to maturity, high mass consumption.

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What is the traditional society?

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Farming, lack of development, based of religion and military, little trade.

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What is pre-conditions for the take off?

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Leaders motivate people to start banks, public transport, currency.

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What is take off?

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Textile, clothes, money develops and core areas develop.

25
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What is the drive to maturity?

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Growing rapidly, industrialisation.

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What is high mass consumption?

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Luxury needed as a resource.

27
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What is frank dependency theory?

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Franks theory is the idea that the MEDCs are exploiting the LEDCs so they can take their resources for s cheaper and trade at a higher price, therefore becoming richer.

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What is primary industries?

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Extract or use the earths natural resources.

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What is secondary industries?

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Take the raw materials and process them into manufactured items.

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What is high tech secondary?

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Use advanced technology in manufacturing.

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What is tertiary industries?

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The services sector. Eg teachers, retail.

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What is quaternary industries.

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Provide information services such as computing, this is apart of the knowledge economy requires high level of education and training.

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What re top down projects?

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Large scale approaches to development that are planned by national governments, other countries and people in power.

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What are bottom up projects?

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Small scale projects run by local people to help themselves.

35
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What is AID?

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Any help given to another country eg.food, medical, money expeditions.

36
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What is longitude and latitude lines?

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Imaginary lines that divide up the earth.

37
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What is Latitude?

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The line that runs from east to west.

38
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What is longitude?

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The line that runs from north to south.

39
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What are longitude lines also known for?

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Meridian lines

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