Development Dynamic

Question 1

Define GDP

Answer 1

Total value of goods and services produced by a country in a year

Question 2

Define poverty line

Answer 2

Minimum income required to meet someones basic needs

Question 3

What two ways can be used to show a country’s level of development

Answer 3

HDI and GDP

Question 4

Describe Malawi’s population pyramid

Answer 4

Dense at bottom so lots of children compared to adults

Therefore lower life expectancy

Question 5

What kind of country is Malawi

Answer 5

Developing

Question 6

Why does fertility rate fall as countries develop

Answer 6

Literacy rate increases so women are more educated on birth control

Question 7

What kind of country is India

Answer 7

Emerging

Question 8

What’s holding Malawi back from being developed

Answer 8

It’s landlocked - no ports to export goods from and to so no trade
Rural isolation - roads are mostly dirt so takes ages to travel
Living with a changing climate - water shortages as temperature rises And food shortages caused by variable rainfall and increased drought

Question 9

What are the 5 stages of Rostows theory of development

Answer 9

Traditional society 
Pre take off 
Take off 
Drive to maturity
High mass consumption

Question 10

What is traditional society

Answer 10

Most people work In agriculture

Question 11

What is pre take off

Answer 11

Shift from farming to manufacturing

Trade increases profits which are invested into new industries

Question 12

What happens in take off stage

Answer 12

Growth is rapid

Investment and technology create new manufacturing industries

Question 13

What happens in the drive to maturity stage

Answer 13

A period of growth
Technology is used throughout the economy
Industries produce consumer goods

Question 14

What happens in high mass consumption stage

Answer 14

Period of comfort

Consumers enjoy wide range of goods

Question 15

What did frank believe

Answer 15

He believed that historical trade was what had made countries poor in the first place

Question 16

Describe franks dependency theory

Answer 16

Two types of global region - core and periphery
Core represented developed powerful countries
Periphery represented ‘other’ areas Which produce raw materials to sell to the core
Periphery depends on the core for its Market

Question 17

Define globalisation and how it happens

Answer 17

Ways in which countries become increasingly connected to each other
Through increase spread of technology
Increasing volumes and variety of trade

Question 18

How has India’s geographical location encouraged its economic growth

Answer 18

The Himalayas stretch across India causing tourists to come and also helps with trade
Located between Middle East and south east Asia which have the worlds fastest growing economic regions so therefore help with trade due to their huge market for goods and services

Question 19

India’s population in 2020

Answer 19

1.38 billion and 40 million people leaving in slums

Question 20

Where has most India’s economic growth come from

Answer 20

Foreign direct investment

Question 21

Why are TNCs in India and how do they benefit

Answer 21

Attractive location to TNCs as the population speak good English, strong IT skills and work for lower wages
a TNC in India is BT which have call centres in India. BT have led processed called outsourcing
Also provide jobs for people

Question 22

What kind of people work in knowledge economy

Answer 22

Well qualified people with high levels of technical knowledge

Question 23

Define rural urban migration

Answer 23

Movement of people to live in cities

Question 24

How has globalisation caused social change in an emerging country

Answer 24

For educated urban women , developing a career results in later marriage and fewer children, birth and fertility rate falls

Question 25

Info about Maharashtra

Answer 25

Urban and contains India’s largest city (Mumbai)

Economic powerhouse for the whole country

Question 26

Where has Maharashtra economic growth come from

Answer 26

Service industries- banking, IT, Call centres
Manufacturing- half of Mumbai’s factory workers make clothing
Entertaining- Mumbai host worlds largest film industry ( Bollywood)

Question 27

What is Bihar

Answer 27

Rural periphery which receives little investment
Distant from cities
Low gdp
Half of its households earn less than 80p per day
Only 59% of his population has electricity

Question 28

What are some environmental impacts of growth

Answer 28

Water pollution- poorly managed garbage and waster removal services so waste is dumped into rivers
Air pollution- urban traffic and emissions from coal fired power stations

Question 29

What is the top down development scheme

Answer 29

Three gorges dam

Question 30

What is the bottom up development scheme

Answer 30

Water aid

Question 31

On what river was the three gorges dam made on

Answer 31

Hard engineering on the Yangtze

Question 32

Facts about the three gorges dam

Answer 32

Was completed on 2012 at a cost of £50 billion

Question 33

Positives of top down

Answer 33

Protects over 100 million people further downstream
Controls river flooding
32 hydro electric generators that produce green energy
Improved transport through the river

Question 34

Negatives of top down development scheme

Answer 34

Building the dam flooded 140 towns and forced over 1.2 million people to be relocated
Very expensive
Trigger earthquakes
Changed the landscape

Question 35

What were the benefits of the bottom up development scheme

Answer 35

Provided clean water for poor villages

Question 36

Negatives of bottom up scheme

Answer 36

In 2014 £73 million was given to water aid and people are still without clean drinking water
360 million US dollars wasted on infrastructure which has since collapsed
Population pressure as village size increase

Question 37

For an emerging country What are the impacts of its international relations

Answer 37

India have had three 3 wars with Pakistan since 1947 which raise fears of future conflict so no trade between them two
Globally India are likely to become a member of the UN Security Council and already belongs to the G20 group.