G Flashcards
Name some economic indicators
GDP, Poverty line , Measures of inequality
GDP meaning
The total value of goods and services produced by a country in one year
Name some social indicators
Access to safe drinking water , literacy rate
Human development index meaning
A standard means of measuring human development
Corruption perception index meaning
Index that scores countries on the perceived level of government corruption
What’s demographic data
All data linked to population eg birth rate , death rate etc
What’s fertility rate
Average number of births per women
What do population pyramids show
Population in terms of gender age wide based = high fertility narrow base - low fertility upside down triangle =population is highest for older people death rate is higher than birth rate
Explain why infant mortality vary between countries
A developing country would not have the suitable health care for woman in labour therefore decreases infant mortality
Rostows theory stage 1
Traditional society- most people work in agriculture
Rostows theory stage 2
Pre conditions for take off- shift from farming to manufacturing
Rostows theory stage 3
Take off- investment creates new manufacturing industries
Rostows theory stage 4
Drive to maturity- technology is used through out economy
Rostows theory stage 5
Age of high mass consumption - consumer enjoy a wide range of goods
What’s wrong with Rostows theory
Based off of European countries and it assumed all countries start with the same recourses and geographical factors e.g population and climate
What’s Franks dependency theory
His theory believed that development was about two types of region - core and periphery. The core represents developed countries and periphery consists of other areas which produce raw materials to sell to the core
How does franks dependency theory work
Low materials are traded between the periphery and core. The core processes these into higher value products and become wealthy.
Criticism for the theory
Very poor countries have managed to develop, some countries were never colonised
Colonisation meaning
When another country takes over a foreign land and applies a system of power
Give an example global economic inequality
About 1 in 5 of the worlds population live on less than $1 a day. Developing countries frequently lack the ability to pay for food
Social consequence of global inequality
Nearly 1 billion people don’t have access to clean water or sanitation and more than 775 million people can’t read or write in developing countries
Environmental consequence of global inequality
Developing countries have increased vulnerability to natural disasters. The lack of coaxing to adapt to climate change induced droughts
Barriers to development
Landlocked, natural disasters
Economic barriers to development
Trade inequalities , cash crops
