Development

Question 1

What is Development?

Answer 1

Development is concerned with improving people’s standard of living and quality of life.
Development means change + growth and is occurring continuously love over the world.

Question 2

What is the Brandt Line?

Answer 2

The Brandt line divides the world into a ‘rich north’ and a ‘poor south’.
The commission used GDP levels of individual countries to produce a map with a ‘rich north’ and a ‘poor south’.
Development is continuous so some countries no longer fit so comfortably in the ‘poor south’ eg. Brazil, South Africa, Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia, China and India.

Question 3

How to measure development.

Answer 3

Differences in development are measured using the wealth of a country based on its GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT (GDP per capita).
GDP per capita is the total income of a country in US $ per year divided by the number of people in the population.

Question 4

MEDC’s and LEDC’s

Answer 4

High GDP per capita = MEDC’s
Low GDP per capita = LEDC’s

MEDC’s - More Economically Developed Countries
LEDC’s = Less Economically Developed Countries

Question 5

What’s a development indicator and what do they do?

Answer 5

A development indicator is data that shows how developed a place is.
They give an insight into how developed a country is in one area eg. wealth.

Question 6

Examples of development indicators.

Answer 6

• life expectancy
• adult literacy rate
• infant mortality rate
• birth rate
• death rate
• GDP
• GNI

Question 7

What are economic indicators?

Examples

Answer 7

These are about money.

Eg. GDP, GDP per person

Question 8

What are social indicators?

Examples

Answer 8

These are about people, usually health care + education.

Eg. birth rate, % undernourished, population density, adult literacy rate + phone lines were 1000 people.

Question 9

What are composite indicators and how are they better?

Answer 9

Even if there is a best single indicator it cannot give a perfect picture of development.
It is best to use a composite indicator like the United Nations Human Development Indicator (HDI) because it takes into account economic wealth + social well-being.

Question 10

What indicators does HDI include?

Answer 10

• income per person
• literacy rates
• life expectancy