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define development

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Postitive change that makes things better, usually means standard of life improves or quality of living

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define GNI

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gross national income - total value of everything produced by a country and the income the residants recieve

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define GDP

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Gross dependant product - looks at the production level of an economy, measuring its size and growth rate

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define HIC

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High income country

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Give an example of a high income country

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UK, Japan, USA

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define LIC

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low income country

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give and example of a low income country

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democratic republic of congo, ethiopia

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define NEE

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newly emergy economy - countries that have recently industrailised

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Give and example of a NEE

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brazil, russia, india, mexico

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How do you remember the NEEs

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BRICS MINT

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What does BRICS MINT stand for

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Brazil, Russia, India, China, South africa
Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria, Turkey

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define quality of life

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A social measure of development, refering to how ‘happy’ a person is with their life

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What are the social development indicators

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  • income
  • life expectancy
  • freedom of speech
  • women’s rights
  • litracy rates
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define standard of living

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An economic measure of deveopment, how much someone owns on average

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how do you measure standard of living

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GPD per capita

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What does HDI stand for

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human development index

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What does the HDI do

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uses three indecators to give each country a score between 0 and 1 and then ranks all countries based on their level of human development

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What does HDI rank the countries off

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their level of human deveoplent

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summerise HDI

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a composite indicator that loos at life expectancy, years in education and GNI per head

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What are the 3 indiactors the HDI uses

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  • life expectancy
  • years in education
  • GNI per head
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What is a composite measure

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something that uses more than one thing to measure something

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What are the benefits of using a composite measure of development

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  • more than one point of reference ~ you get the whole picture
  • the one unti of measure could be bad (war/disease)
  • countries will struggle to lie about more than one unit
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what are the main reasons population changes

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  • agricultrural & industrial change
  • urbanization
  • education
  • status of women
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How can agriculture and industrial change affect population

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  • as a ocuntry develops technology advances
  • farming is quicker and easier so less employees needed
  • most people work in farming in LIC
  • children are no longer needed to work
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How can urbanization affect population

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  • people move to city for work where there is less space to have families
  • greater life expectancy and health care ~ people survive birth
  • more expensive housing cuases people to not want families
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How can education affect population

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  • more knowledge of family planning
  • if you want your child to have better education families have less children to invest more
  • knowing about hygiene and safety
  • good education -> better job -> less kids needed to work
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how can status of women affect population

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  • more woman are focusing on the own life and have kids later
  • more opportunities so they want to have kids later
  • family planning and contraception
  • empowerment allows women to decide if they themselevs want kids
  • increase in medical staff
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What is brith rate predicted to do in stage 5 of the demographic transition model

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decrease

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What is death rate predicted to do in stage 5 of the demographic transition model

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increase

30
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why does death rate decrease so dramatically in stage 2/3

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it represents industrilisation

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What would a population pyramid of a stage 1 country look like

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  • concave sides
  • high birth rate
  • high death rate
  • short life expectancy
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What would a population pyramid of a stage 2 country look like

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  • straight sides
  • high birth rate
  • falling death rate
  • slightly longer life expectancy
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What would a population pyramid of a stage 3 country look like

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  • convex sides
  • deciling BR
  • low death rate
  • long life expectancy
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What would a population pyramid of a stage 4 country look like

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  • convex sides
  • very low birth rate
  • low death rate
  • longer life expectancy
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What is a high dependancy ratio

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When the dependants (0-16, 65+) are more than the working number

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What is a low dependacy ratio

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when there is a good amount of workers to dependant (0-16, 65+)

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What are the sides like on this population pyramid

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concave

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What are the sides like on this population pyramid

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convex

39
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What are lifestyle diseases

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medical conditions or illnesses which people develop off of their surrounds and life style (diabetes)

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Why do you find more lisfestyle diseases in HICs

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  • people have more access to processed foods and sweets
  • advanced technology (phones, cars) people don’t get out of the house
  • people don’t have very active jobs ~ they sit behind a desk or counter
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What are the three causes for uneven development

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  • physical causes
  • economic causes
  • historical causes
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what are physical cuases of uneven development

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  • climate ~ food production, illness
  • natural disasters ~ need country to be rebuilt
  • location ~ land locked
  • natural resources ~ water, oil, soil
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what are economic causes of uneven development

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  • no industrilisation
  • no job avaliablity
  • unequal trade
44
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what is unequal trade

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where LICs trade for little to HICs and then the HICs manufactor them and sell them at a higher price

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what are historical causes of uneven development

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  • no industrial past
  • disagreements between countries
  • past war
  • impact of colonisation
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how does colonisation impact uneven development

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  • the country fights for independence
  • there is no clear leader ~ conflict and war

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