The Changing Economic World

Question 1

What are some measurements of development in a country ?

Answer 1

Life expectancy

GNI per head (money earned per person in a country)

Literacy rate

Question 2

Whats wrong about GNI per head ?

Answer 2

Country’s like quasar have a very small amount of very rich individuals and because its a measure of average they look a very rich country

Question 3

Whats does the demographics transition model show in stage 4 ?

Answer 3

Low birth rate and death rate meaning in no population growth

HIC countries like UK where the population pyramid is large in the Middle Ages and low in younger and elderly

Question 4

What does stage 5 of the demographic transition model show ?

Answer 4

A increasing death rate and falling birth rate

Japan

A population pyramid were they’re is a lot of elderly population

Question 5

Why do people have its of children in LIC countries ?

Answer 5

Because infant morality rates are high

Question 6

what’s infant morality ?

Answer 6

Where lots of children die as its common in birth or young age

Question 7

Why might death rate be high in a country ?

Answer 7

Poor healthcare or a famine

Question 8

What are factors of global inequality of development ?

Answer 8

Poor climate so it’s hard to grow or work in

Low raw materials

Lots of natural disasters

Poor trade

Conflict

Question 9

What happens as a cause of conflict in LIC ‘S ?

Answer 9

People move to HIC as immigrants to escape for better quality aulity of life and jobs

Question 10

What are some strategies of reducing the development gap ?

Answer 10

Investment from other countries

Aid from other countries

Fair trade around the world

Micro finance

Question 11

What is micro finance ?

Answer 11

Small loans given to people in LICS which enables hem to start their own business

Pigs for peace

Question 12

How can the tourism industry helps county that is struggling ?

Answer 12

Helps employ people

Helps protect the environment

Question 13

Whats the primary sector ?

Answer 13

Agriculture

Question 14

Whats the secondary sector ?

Answer 14

Manufacturing and factories

Question 15

What’d the tertiary sector ?

Answer 15

Service and office jobs

Question 16

Whats the quaternary sector ?

Answer 16

Advanced technology and research

Question 17

What percentage of people are employed in the primary sector in India ?

Answer 17

42%

Question 18

What are transnational corporations (TNC’s) ?

Answer 18

Big Company’s that operate in other countries

Question 19

Why do TNC’s locate they’re factories in LIC’s ?

Answer 19

Cheaper running costs and labour costs

Question 20

Why do TNC’s locate they’re office and headquarters in HIC’s ?

Answer 20

Higher skilled workers for administrative work because the education is better

Question 21

Whats the advantages of TNC’s ?

Answer 21

They employ

They pay tax to the county’s government which helps the country’s development

Question 22

what’s the disadvantages of TNC’s ?

Answer 22

They can cause huge job losses when they relocate

Can cause environmental problems for example (shell big oil spills)

Question 23

What are the 4 different types of aid country can receive ?

Answer 23

Short term

Long term

Bilateral aid

Multilateral aid

Question 24

Whats short term aid and examples ?

Answer 24

Money and supplies oven to countries for a short amount of time for emergencies

For example uk donating to Syria and turkey for earthquakes

Question 25

What is long term aid and what are some examples ?

Answer 25

Money invested to a country for a long term project to develop the country

Mosquito nets given to Nigeria to stop malaria over two years programme

Question 26

what’s bilateral aid ?

Answer 26

When the country receiving aid must spend money on goods and services of the country providing the aid

Question 27

What multilateral aid ?

Answer 27

When high income countries donate money through big worldwide organisations

Question 28

Who stopped the secondary sector in the uk and started deindustrialisation ?

Answer 28

Margret thatcher

Question 29

What does de industrialisation mean ?

Answer 29

More automation in manufacturing

Job losses

Cheaply produced goods

Question 30

Whats globalisation ?

Answer 30

Where manufacturers move overseas because of labour costs and land costs this is causing global development

Question 31

how much will cross rail increase London train capacity by ?

Answer 31

10%

Question 32

What will the HS2 do ?

Answer 32

Link major cities in the uk like Birmingham, Manchester and London

Question 33

What are Heathrow planning on doing to improve development in the uk ?

Answer 33

Upending up a new runway that will allow another 700 plans a day but will also destroy housing and increase pollution and noise pollution

Question 34

How many country’s do the EU contain and wha does it do ?

Answer 34

27 and it allows free trade across Europe

The UK left in 2020

Question 35

What made the north and south divide even more prominent ?

Answer 35

De industrialisation left people in the north without jobs and stopped growth

Wages are lower in the north

Health is worse in the north

Education is worse in the north

Question 36

What are the benefits of establishing a company in an enterprise zone ?

Answer 36

Reduced taxes

Simple planning rules

Question 37

Whats the plan to reduce the north and south divide in the uk ?

Answer 37

They are introducing faster broadband to the north with icy will open up more jobs and improve schools.