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Development gap Flashcards

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What is meant by the ‘first’ world?

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Europeans

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What is meant by the second world?

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Wealthy regions colonized by Europe such as North America and Australia

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What is meant by the third world?

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Poor countries

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What is the north and south region?

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South is the poor side while the north is the rich side

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Why are abbreviations such as LDC and MDC not accepted to be used to evaluate wealth of counties?

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Because LDC and MDC only evaluates wealth in the country’s economy, but some countries are poor economically but rich culturally

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What is the five fold division?

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Rich industrializing
Oil exporting 
New industrializing 
Heavily indebted countries
Countries previously having a communist system
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What is used to measure development?

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GNI - gross national income (wealth)
GNP - gross national product (wealth without taxes)
INFANT MORTALITY - the number of babies died per 1000 live births
HDI - human development index

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What are physical factors that make global development inequalities worse?

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Physical geography of a country
Diseases
Climatic hazards

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What are economic factors that make global development inequalities worse?

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Low life expectancy and

Standard of living

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What are environmental factors that make global development inequalities worse?

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Deforestation

Poaching

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What are social factors that make global development inequalities worse?

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Education - funding for children

Reliability of water supply - needed for crops and plants

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How to reduce global inequalities?

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Loans and aid

Debt relief and abolition

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What is short term aid?

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Aid for disaster relief (food, water, clothes)

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What is long term aid?

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Aid given to promote economic development

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What is bilateral aid?

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Aid given from one government to another

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What is multilateral aid?

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Rich/developed countries give money to international organizations

17
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What is top down aid?

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Aid for governments to run efficiently to build infrastructure

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What is bottom up aid?

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Aid that provides basic health care, money and education

19
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What does economic periphery mean?

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A country with its economy on the edge

20
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What does economic core mean?

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A country with its economy in the middle or core

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