Global Inequalities

Question 1

What can environmental factors be split into?

Answer 1

Climate hazards and climate related diseases

Question 2

Examples of climate hazards?

Answer 2

Droughts, floods, earthquakes etc

Question 3

Examples of climate related diseases?

Answer 3

Malaria

Question 4

Why do environmental hazards stop development?

Answer 4

People stay poor (lost agriculture or ill), can’t go shopping, fewer jobs, no food as they can’t afford it, have little energy, can’t work, kids have little energy, can’t go to school, poor qualifications, low income, stay poor

Question 5

What does economic factors include?

Answer 5

Trade patterns, LIC dependence on primary products, interdependence, debt

Question 6

What’s the problem with trade patterns?

Answer 6

Favour HICs , who determine the market

Question 7

Why do trade patterns stop countries developing?

Answer 7

Sell low value products, small profit, buy back high value products with the little profit they made, don’t have enough money to spend on other things

Question 8

Advantages of relying on one primary product?

Answer 8

Specialised, less expense- only one type of machinery needed, passed on through generations

Question 9

Disadvantages of relying on one primary product?

Answer 9

Price can fall, no say in global price, crop failure, trends change, recycling of materials like metals reduces market size

Question 10

Why do LICs have such a large amount of debt?

Answer 10

Took out large loans in the 70s, high interest rates mean they can’t afford to repay it, figure increases as they can’t afford to repay

Question 11

Problems of LIC debt?

Answer 11

Education being denied as parents have to pay so the government can use the money to repay the debt, charities give them less than the repayments are, children are starving

Question 12

What are the 4 social factors?

Answer 12

Water availability, water quality, health, education

Question 13

Why’s there an increased demand for water?

Answer 13

Higher populations, more businesses, higher incomes= dishwashers etc, tourism

Question 14

Advantages of using rivers as a water supply

Answer 14

Free, easily accessible, large rivers have a reliable flow

Question 15

Disadvantages of using rivers as a water supply?

Answer 15

Contaminated, smaller rivers dry up

Question 16

Why is access to clean water in rural areas lower?

Answer 16

Lower incomes- can’t afford it, expensive to provide when customers are so far apart, disease from dirty water spreads more slowly among lower population densities

Question 17

How does health stop development?

Answer 17

Poor water quality, illness, can’t work, no income, can’t access clean water
AND no income, can’t pay tax, lack of government money spent on healthcare, illness

Question 18

How does education stop development?

Answer 18

Low education, low salary, low income family

AND low salary, little tax paid to government, can’t improve education, low salary

Question 19

What are some political factors?

Answer 19

Corruption, stability, war, refugees, law, human rights

Question 20

What 3 things cause the political factors?

Answer 20

Communist, corruption, war

Question 21

Example of corruption

Answer 21

Rigging elections and the leader takes money for personal use

Question 22

What’s bad about an unstable government?

Answer 22

They don’t invest in healthcare, education etc

Question 23

What’s bad about war in terms of development?

Answer 23

Country loses money that could be spent on development, as buildings are destroyed and need repairing etc

Question 24

What’s the problem with refugees leaving a country?

Answer 24

Reduces the work force= unstable economy