GEOGRAPHY development, Types of aid, Globalisation

Question 1

What is meant by development?

Answer 1

Occurs when a country makes sustained improvements to its overall quality of life.

Question 2

What is meant by globalisation?

Answer 2

A process by which the world becomes more connected. Money, people, products and ideas travel around the world with increasing speed and ease.

Question 3

What are causes of globalisation?

Answer 3

Deregulation, Telecommunications, Outsorcing, Transport, Peace and Security.

Question 4

Which organisation provides FDI (foreign direct investment) for LIC’s?

Answer 4

TNC’s (Transnational coorporations). For example, Nike buying fabric/ cotton shirts from LIC’s.

Question 5

What is import?

Answer 5

Goods and trade entering one country after being sent by another.

Question 6

What is meant by a top-down project?

Answer 6

Large-scale development projects occuring through the actions of governments and TNC’s. For example, a dam.

Question 7

What is meant by a bottom-up project?

Answer 7

A small scale project that helps the community and can improve health, education and water supplies at a local level. For example, a water well being built in the centre of a small commmunity.

Question 8

What are some of the causes of inequality between countries?

Answer 8

Being landlocked, climate change, pollution, terms of trade, colonisation and relations around the globe.

Question 9

What are demographics?

Answer 9

The study of the size and nature of the population.

Question 10

What is meant by a development indicator?

Answer 10

A number or statistic that geographers use to measure how developed a country is.

Question 11

What are examples of some development indicators used to measure the development of a country?

Answer 11

Life expectancy, literacy rates, poverty line %, GDP, Access to safe drinking water, IMR, Corruption perceptions index, Human development index, doctors per 1000 people.

Question 12

What are the three types of development?

Answer 12

Economic, Social, Political

Question 13

What are some types of inequality?

Answer 13

Physical, Economic, Historical and environmental, geographical, social.

Question 14

What are some causes of the development gap?

Answer 14

Debt, Migration, Conflict and Extreme poverty.

Question 15

What are the two types of inequality multipliers?

Answer 15

Wealth and poverty multipliers.

Question 16

What did Rostow’s model represent?

Answer 16

How a country’s development should increase over time.

Question 17

What is meant by ‘aid’?

Answer 17

A form of help given from one country to another, one person to another or from an NGO to a country in need of help.

Question 18

What are some types of aid?

Answer 18

Bilateral - given directly from one country to another, Mutilateral - given to international organisation and then shared out between countries in need,
Relief - Saves lives immediately after a natural disaster or war, Foreign - Money goods or services that are gifted to a developing country,
Tied aid - When a country gives aid to another country but there is often an expectation of a favour back.

Question 19

What percentage of the Indian population lives in poverty?

Answer 19

15%

Question 20

What are the percentages of the Indian population works in primary, secondary and tertiary industries today?

Answer 20

Primary - 42%
Secondary - 24%
Tertiary - 34%

Question 21

What are the percentages of the Indian population works in primary, secondary and tertiary industries in 1990?

Answer 21

Primary - 85%
Secondary - 10%
Tertiary - 5%

Question 22

What does GDP measure?

Answer 22

The health of a country’s economy, the total value of the goods and services produced in a country during a specific period of time.