Regional patterns of development India and UK, Reducing inequalities

Question 1

1. Why does Kerala in India have relatively low birth rates and high life expectancy compared with the rest of India?

Answer 1

The state government funds health and education.

Question 2

2. Why has Kashmir lower than average levels of income per capita?

Answer 2

Conflict in the region between India and Pakistan.

Question 3

3. Why as Maharashtra and Gujarat are India’s main centre of…

Answer 3

Industry.

Question 4

4. What is widespread against women and girls in India

Answer 4

Discrimination.

Question 5

5. What does the word rural periphery mean?

Answer 5

On the edge or margins; areas which have a poor economic status and thus suffer from the associated conditions.

Question 6

6. Give an example of an informal job that people do in India?

Answer 6

Collecting and recycling rubbish.

Question 7

7. What is the term that is used to refer to the economic and social differences between southern and northern areas of the UK?

Answer 7

North-South Divide.

Question 8

8. Give 3 consequences of these regional differences in the UK?

Answer 8

• Health conditions are poorer in the north.
• Life expectancy is higher in the south.
• House prices are higher in the south / incomes are higher in the south.
• Internal migration of young professionals from northern areas into the south east.

Question 9

9. What is deindustrialisation?

Answer 9

The decline of manufacturing (secondary) industries.

Question 10

10. Is there more research and development spending in the north or the south of the UK?

Answer 10

South.

Question 11

11. The south has a global centre for banking and finance?

Answer 11

True - London.

Question 12

12. The major airports in the UK are located in

Answer 12

The South.

Question 13

13. People tend to have lower earnings/salaries in

Answer 13

The North.

Question 14

14. Name the MNC that had to lay of significant amount of workers in Scunthorpe (NE England) and Port Talbot (South Wales).

Answer 14

Tata Steel.

Question 15

15. These areas in question 14 already suffers from low pay and higher than average levels of unemployment.

Answer 15

True.

Question 16

16. Give an example of a city in the north you have studied

Answer 16

Sheffield.

Question 17

17. This city experienced economic diversification what were the 3 positives of this?

Answer 17

• Water quality improved river re-stocked with fish.
• Air quality has improved.
• Regeneration of old steel sites (Meadowhall shopping centre.)

Question 18

18. What were the 3 negative impacts of economic diversification on this city?

Answer 18

• Derelict land and buildings left.
• Pressure on Greenfield sites on the edge of Sheffield.
• Increased traffic congestion and job competition.

Question 19

19. Where is the proposed M4 relief road?

Answer 19

Newport South Wales.

Question 20

20. Why is this being considered to help reduce regional inequalities?

Answer 20

Reducing traffic congestion and making it easier to get into wales along the M4 this will increase trade, create jobs (the multiplier effect.)

Question 21

21. Why do some people object to this relief road?

Answer 21

• Very expensive.
• Some will say it will encourage more cars and therefore noise and air pollution.
• The location through a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI).

Question 22

22. What are Enterprise Zones?

Answer 22

They are areas specifically designated or focused on for business and are supported by governments.

Question 23

23. Give a named example of an Enterprise Zone.

Answer 23

Sheffield.