Human Development Gap

Question 1

Definition of development

Answer 1

Relates to the progress of a country in terms of economics growth, the use of technology and human welfare.

Question 2

What does GNI stand for and what does it mean?

Answer 2

Gross National Income

This is a measure of a country’s wealth. It is the total value of goods and services produced by a country, plus the income earned from investments in other country’s. The figure is divided by the population of a country to produce a per capita.

Question 3

What is the Human development Index

Answer 3

This was devised by the UN as a social measure of development. It is a composite measure that considers life expectancy, GNI and number of years is education. A value between 1 and 0

Question 4

Birth Rate

Answer 4

Number of Births per 1000 people

Question 5

Death rate

Answer 5

Number of deaths per 1000 people

Question 6

Infant mortality

Answer 6

Number of of deaths of children under the age of 1 per 1000 births

Question 7

People per doctor

Answer 7

Number of people who downs on a single doctor.

Question 8

Literacy Rate

Answer 8

Percentage of adults that can read and write in a country

Question 9

Access to safe water

Answer 9

Percentage of people with access to safe and sanitary water that is free form bacteria.

Question 10

Life Expectancy

Answer 10

Average age a person lives for

Question 11

What does LIC stand for

Answer 11

Low income country

Question 12

What does a HIC stand for

Answer 12

High income country

Question 13

What does NEE stand for?

Answer 13

Newly emerging economy

Question 14

What is primary sector?

Answer 14

Collecting natural/raw materials

Question 15

What is a secondary sector

Answer 15

Manufacturing the primary product 

Question 16

What is a tertiary sector?

Answer 16

Providing a service, e.g. office employment

Question 17

What is Quatermong sector?

Answer 17

Scientifical development and research

Question 18

What is the DTM?

Answer 18

The demographic transition model is a line graph, which changes over time in the characteristics of a country’s population. It shows birth rate and death rate and total population

Question 19

Give two limitations of using birthrate as an indicator of development?

Answer 19

Average number does not take into account fluctuations

Not always accurately recorded 

Question 20

What type of country tends to have a GNI of between $1046 and $12,735?

Answer 20

Newly emerging economy

Question 21

A pre-industrial country will have the majority of its population working in which type of industry?

Answer 21

Tertiary

Question 22

What is the dependency ratio?

Answer 22

Percentage or number of those age 0 to 14+ Percentage on number of those age, 65+
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Percentage or number of those age 15 to 64

Question 23

If a population pyramid has concave sides then what will it have? 

Answer 23

A low life expectancy

Question 24

What is a migration 

Answer 24

The movement of people

Question 25

What is an immigrant?

Answer 25

A person who moves into a country

Question 26

What is a refugee?

Answer 26

A person who is forced to leave their country or origin, as resulting in war, all natural disaster

Question 27

What are the five ways of reducing the development gap?

Answer 27

Tourism
Industrial Development
Investment
Fair trade
Intermediate Technology

Question 28

What is debt relief

Answer 28

Debt relief is where debt is cancelled and the G8 countries agree to do this.

Question 29

What is development?

Answer 29

Progress of a country in terms of economic growth.