DEVELOPMENT

Question 1

Advantages of development indicators, GDP/GNP?

Answer 1

-A useful figure for comparing countries. Often used to rank countries to establish a fair system of aid payments

Question 2

Disadvantages of development indicators, GDP/GNP?

Answer 2

-Can hide inequalities as it does not show the distribution of wealth

Question 3

Advantages of development indicators, infant mortality?

Answer 3

-Indicates quality of health care, water quality, food supply

Question 4

Disadvantages of development indicators, infant mortality?

Answer 4

-Hard to get an accurate figure as many births in the less developed countries would be unregistered

Question 5

Advantages of development indicators, birth rate?

Answer 5

-clear indicator of a country’s level of development

Question 6

Disadvantages of development indicators, birth rate?

Answer 6

-can be affected by population policies such as China’s one child policy

Question 7

Advantages of development indicators, death rate?

Answer 7

-Indicates level of health care provision, water quality, sanitation, and living conditions

Question 8

Disadvantages of development indicators, death rate?

Answer 8

• Does not actually tell us what is responsible for the high death rate.
• For example a high death rate could be a result of a natural disaster not poor health care

Question 9

Advantages of development indicators, literacy rates?

Answer 9

-Shows how many children could/couldn’t attend school

Question 10

Disadvantages of development indicators, literacy rates?

Answer 10

• Takes no notice of other skills the people may have which are equally valuable
• For example a good understanding of farming techniques

Question 11

Strategies to reduce the development gap, investment?

Answer 11

-Investment can be used in 2 ways in poorer countries in order to try and improve quality of life and reduce gaps in development
Internal investment can come from large companies or the government, who might develop their own companies and projects.
-Many LICs are not capable of doing this, so turn instead to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
-FDI is where foreign companies (such as BMW) locate their factories or research and development facilities in another country.
-This has good features such as improving the expertise and skills of local people who work in the factories, increasing trade for the country, o

Question 12

Strategies to reduce the development gap, aid?

Answer 12

• Aid is basically a form of help given from one country to another; or one person to another, or from a charity (often called Non-Government Organisations or NGOs) to a country or region
• Aid can be given in the short term for emergencies, like during the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami, when money poured into South East Asia to help the victims and the sick
• Development aid is longer term, and seeks to help people in poorer countries raise their standard of living.
• Aid can also be tied or untied.
• Tied aid is when the country giving the aid expects something in return for the aid - the host country may have to trade more with the donor country for example
• Untied aid is where the receiving country does not have to give anything in return

Question 13

Strategies to reduce the development gap, fair trade?

Answer 13

• This is a scheme designed to get a better deal for the producers of the primary products that HIC countries need
• The producers get access to the market for their goods, a contract (for extra financial security), better prices for their products and access to the Fair Trade Premium, which is a sum of money available from the Fair Trade foundation to be spent upon improving yields, farming practices, health care or education
• Fair Trade is an international movement and its influence is growing, more than 4,500 products now bear the fair trade mark, and 72% of the UK population recognise the Fair Trade logo
• In addition, more than 7 million people in Africa, Asia and Latin America benefit from Fair Trade - farmers, farm workers, and their families

Question 14

Challenges associated with uneven developement?

Answer 14

There are problems with UNEVEN DEVELOPMENT that directly affect people’s quality of life and standard of living. These are known as INEQUALITIES - extreme differences between poverty and wealth, as well as in peoples’ wellbeing and access to things like jobs, housing and education.

Question 15

Challenges associated with uneven developement, diseases of affluence?

Answer 15

• malaria
• hiv/aids
• TB

Question 16

Challenges associated with uneven developement, diseases of poverty?

Answer 16

• diabetes
• asthma
• alacholism

Question 17

What are diseases of affluence?

Answer 17

are those diseases which are thought to be the result of increasing wealth in society

Question 18

What are diseases of poverty?

Answer 18

Diseases of poverty which result from impoverishment (poverty)

Question 19

Urbanisation and urban population change?

Answer 19

Urbanisation means an increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas compared to rural areas . The world’s population is growing rapidly and reached 7.3 billion people in 2011. … Today more than 50% of the world’s population live in urban areas. The number of cities with over 10 million people is increasing.

Question 20

Impact of tourism on the development gap?

Answer 20

By taking advantage of the tourism industry and exploiting the resources that are available to them, people will be able to earn a living, which reduces the development gap due to more people having jobs and an income. … This tax revenue can be used to build infrastructure, which creates jobs.