Glossary

Question 0

Define: Developed Country

Answer 0

A country that has a strong economic rating.

Also has good education, healthy and has good income etc.

Question 1

Define: Child Mortality Rates

Answer 1

The measure of how many children, under five years old, die.

Question 2

Define: Developing Country

Answer 2

A country striving to achieve a strong economic rating, but lacks wealth, employment and income.

Question 3

Define: Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

Answer 3

A measure of a country’s development which is measured by the worth of goods and services produced DOMESTICALLY, per capital per annum.
Should be combined with HDI because you can’t measure development on wealth alone.

Question 4

Define: Human Development Index (HDI)

Answer 4

A measure of development which is measured by health, education and income.
It should be combined with GDP because a country with these things isn’t necessarily wealthy.

Question 5

Define: Poverty

Answer 5

Being deprived of food, shelter, money and clothing and can’t satisfy their basic needs.

Question 6

Define: Poverty line and extreme poverty line

Answer 6

Poverty: less than $2 per day

Extreme poverty: less than $1.25 per day

Question 7

Define: poverty cycle

Answer 7

Series of events in poverty that can’t usually be broken

Question 8

Define: sustainability

Answer 8

Able to be maintained at a certain level

Question 9

Define: slum

Answer 9

A heavily populated yet compacted area with poor living conditions.

Question 10

Define: wealth

Answer 10

Having a lot of money

Question 11

Define: landlocked

Answer 11

Isolated from trading places