development dynamics - paper 1 Flashcards
examples of economic development indicators
GDP
measures of inequality
GDP
gross domestic product - total value of goods and services produced by a country in a year
purchasing power parity
shows what money will buy in each currency
measures of inequality
show how equally wealth is shared among the population
examples of social indicators
access to safe drinking water
literacy rate
access to safe drinking water
% of population with piped water supply within a km
literacy rate
% of population aged over 15 who can read and write
HDI
human development index - one figure between 0-1 calculated by using an average of 4 indicators: life expectancy, literacy, average length of schooling, GDP
corruption perception index
a scale between 10 ( honest) and 0 (very corrupt) to rank how safe investors money is in a government/country
what help you measure development
economic, social, political
what is malawis population like on an age sex pyramid
youthful, large base and narrow apex
what is malawis population figures like
birth rate - 41.8
death rate - 8.7
fertility rate - 5.7
depends ratio - 93.3
what is malawis health figures like
life expectancy - 60
infant mortality - 48
maternal mortality - 460
what is malawis education figures like
literacy rate - 74.8
what is womens health like in Malawi
skilled health workers only attend 20% of births
babies with unhealthy mothers are most likely to die in the first 5 years
what is woman’s education like in Malawi
few girls attend secondary school beyond age 13
many marry by 14, have their first child soon after, hence the high fertility rate caused by poverty
what happens as countries develop
GDP increases, more money to spend on services like health and education as well as factors like birth and death rate, infant and maternal mortality all decrease and life expectancy and literacy rates increase
where are the wealthy countries located according to the Brandt model
global north
where are the low income countries located according to the Brandt model
global south
middle income country
growth in the 1980s - large reserves of raw materials incouraged investment
newly industrialised countries
growth was so aggressive - became known as ‘Asian tigers’
mainly due to relocation of manufacturing overseas by US and European TNCs in 1990s
recently industrialised countries
recent investment 2000s - 2010s by us and European TNCs - largely domestic populations
what are the 4 factors holding Malawi back
it’s landlocked - no port to cheaply import and export goods so can’t trade easily, only a long train which can’t take much weight, or plane which can be expensive
rural isolation - roads mainly made of dirt, several hours to travel to markets in rainy season, rural coverage is poor for phones, 85% are isolated
living with climate change - water shortages, food shortages due to varied rainfall and rainy season will be shorter as well as intense rain causes problems
increased pollution - squatter settlements, no sanitation or waste management, rivers are contaminated, dust, car fumes have all increased air pollution
what are Malawis main problems with trade
- spends more than it earns
- used to sell to developed countries in return for manufactured goods now trade between developing and emerging countries is also important
- largely only produces raw materials
what is colonisation and cash crops
- Malawi depend on cash crops for exports - global prices vary and farmers never know what they will get
- plantations they made are still UK owned - profits go to TNCs, neo colonisation
what is global trade and international relations
Malawi only sell raw coffee beans instead of roasted even though it would be more expensive as there would be a tariff
3 trade problems which stand in the way of Malawi
- terms of trade
2. colonisation and cash crops - global state and international relations
what was rostows theory (1960)
- traditional society - subsidence economy - people fed for themselves in agriculture
- pre conditions for take off - shift from farming to manufacturing, trade increases profits which is invested into industries and infrastructure
- take off - growth is rapid, investments and technology create new manufacturing industries
- drive to maturity - a period of growth, technology is used throughout the economy, industries created consumer goods
- age of high mass consumption - societies choose how to spend wealth, e,g, military or education
what was franks dependency theory (1967)
development was about 2 type of global regions - core and periphery
core - developed nations
periphery - ‘others’ - producing raw materials to sell to the core - depend on the core for their market
lower value materials are traded and the core processes these into higher wealth products, becoming wealthy, historically trade is what made countries poor to begin with - think bourgeoise and proletariat