Unit 4 - International development

Question 1

Inequality:

Answer 1

When wealth and access to services are not shared equally.

Question 2

Extreme poverty:

Answer 2

It is where you have resources worth less than $1.90 a day to live on.

Question 3

Wealth:

Answer 3

The value of all the possessions owned by a person, company or country.

Question 4

Poverty line:

Answer 4

When the sum of money is used to define the level of poverty in a country.

Question 5

Latrine:

Answer 5

A shared, public toilet

Question 6

Sanitation:

Answer 6

Access to clean drinking water and sewage disposal.

Question 7

Development:

Answer 7

The process of change that improves people’s lives.

Question 8

Fertility rate:

Answer 8

It is the average no. of children per woman.

Question 9

What MEDCS stand for?

Answer 9

More Economically Developed Countries

Question 10

What does LEDCS stand for?

Answer 10

Less Economically developed countries

Question 11

What are the sectors of employment?

Answer 11

Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
Quaternary

Question 12

What does the primary sector of employment consist?

Answer 12

Outputs - crops, minerals and seafood

Question 13

What does the secondary sector of employment consist?

Answer 13

Manufacturing

Question 14

What does the tertiary sector of employment consist?

Answer 14

Services

Question 15

What does the quaternary sector of employment consist?

Answer 15

Research + Development

Question 16

How can war halt a country’s development?

Answer 16

. Waste of money for war equipment
. Cities would be destroyed
. Shortage of workforce
. Children miss out on education

Question 17

Quality of life:

Answer 17

The level of comfort and well being a person enjoys.

Question 18

What does GDP stand for?

Answer 18

gross domestic product

Question 19

What is GDP?

Answer 19

The total value of a country’s goods and services in a year.

Question 20

Life expectancy:

Answer 20

Th average age someone from birth will live until.

Question 21

Literacy rate:

Answer 21

The % of people who can read and write over the age of 15.

Question 22

Development indicator:

Answer 22

It helps to explain how developed a country is.

Question 23

What does GNI stand for?

Answer 23

gross national income

Question 24

What does HDI stand for?

Answer 24

human development index

Question 25

What are the sub-topics of HDI?

Answer 25

Life expectancy
Access to education
Standard, decent life

Question 26

What is HDI?

Answer 26

It is a summary measure of average achievement in key dimensions of human development.

Question 27

What does PPP stand for?

Answer 27

Purchasing power parity

Question 28

What is PPP?

Answer 28

What a dollar can buy

Question 29

Remittance:

Answer 29

The money or goods that migrants send back to families and friends in origin countries.

Question 30

Choropleth maps:

Answer 30

A map which uses different shading of colours within predefined areas to indicate the average values of a particular quantity in those areas.

Question 31

How does HDI change?

Answer 31

Covid 19
Climate change
Conflicts

Question 32

What are the problems of GDI per person?

Answer 32

HDI - alternative because it looks into all factors.