The Development Gap 📖

Question 1

High income countries (HIC’s)

Answer 1

A group of wealthy countries mostly in the northern hemisphere e.g. North America and Europe.

Question 2

Low income countries (LIC’s)

Answer 2

A second group of much poorer countries mostly in the Southern Hemisphere e.g. South America and Africa.

Question 3

Criticisms of the brunt line

Answer 3

• Made in 1980so it could be out of date.
• Not all parts of countries are poor or rich.
• Does not take into account countries in the middle.
• Some countries have developed more.
• Does not include the BRICs.
• Doesn’t take into account of the population.

Question 4

Middle income countries (MIC’s)

Answer 4

Countries such as brazil and chile that has large reserves of raw materials (e.g. iron) which encouraged investment and growth in the 1980s.

Question 5

Newly industrial countries (NIC’s)

Answer 5

Their growth was often due to relocation of manufacturing overseas. Economies double in size between 1988 and 1996.