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Y9 - Development Flashcards

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What is development?

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refers to the standars of living and quality of life of its inhabitants. development is a process of change whereby peoples lifes will get better .

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What is HIC?

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a high income country, A country with a GNI above 12, 700 Us dollars

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What is MIC

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a middle income country

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What is LIC

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low income country, countries with a GNI under 1045 US dollar

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what is NEE

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newly emerging economys

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what graphs have we been using to mesure development

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a distribution graph
they show a spread of the data

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what does gross mean?

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total

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GNI

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Gross national income

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What are development indicators?

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facts that tell us how developed a country

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examples of development?

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Life expectancy, Infant mortality, birth fate, fertility rate, median age, education expenditure, GNI

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Life expectancy at birth

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The average number of years to be lived by a group of people born in the same year.​

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Infant mortality

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The number of deaths of infants under 1 year per 1000 live births.​

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Education expenditure

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% of GDP spent on education. ​

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Birth rate

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Number of live Babies born, per 1000 people, per year. ​

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GNI per capita

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The total income received by the country from its residents and businesses regardless of whether they are located in the country or abroad.​

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fertility rate

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Average number of children that would be born per woman if all women lived to the end of their child bearing age. ​

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labor force by occupation

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Percentage of people employed in each sector; agriculture, industries and services.​

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median age

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This is the age that divided the population into two equal groups, half being higher and half being lower. ​

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GDP

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the total value of goods produced and services provided in a country during one year.

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What is HDI?

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human development index,
This is an index devised by the UN.​

It is a compound indicator.​

It uses adult literacy, life expectancy and GDP to give a composite score for each country. This gives a better way of measuring than just using GDP, for example.​

The scores are between 0 and 1.​

The closer to 1 the better the level of development.​

Any country below 0.5 has a low level of development.​

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What are the reasons for the development gap?

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natural disasters
Colonialism
Climate
Natural resources
Debt
Level of education ​
Diseases
Landlocked
Corruption
Religion
Location

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What do you use a scatter graph for?

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mutual relationship or connection between 2 or more things.​

Development indicators are linked, if one data set goes up then another might go down.​

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What is the developmenmt gap?

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he gap between the HICs and LICs is called the development gap.​

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Natural Disaters

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e.g. Hurricane Irma

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Colonialism

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e.g. English colonising Kenya

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Climate

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e.g. good for agriculture (less than 16°C is good)

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Natural resources

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e.g. iron ore, oil

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Debt

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– half the wealth of the poorest 20 countries goes off-shore – US$20-30 billion a year.

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Diseases

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e.g. tsetse fly causing ‘sleeping sickness’ in humans and animals.

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Landlocked

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– difficult to trade e.g. 15 African countries are landlocked.

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Corruption

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– means failure of money to reach the right places, or not using the right person for the job.

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Corruption

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– means failure of money to reach the right places, or not using the right person for the job.

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Religion

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– poorest countries are most religious as they don’t believe they can alter their destiny.

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Location

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– in the tropics: poorer soil, plants with lower carbohydrate levels.

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Bottom up aid

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Small scale aid projects are called bottom-up aid.​

These target the people most in need of the aid and help them directly, ​

This occurs without any government interference. ​

Aid from charities tends to be bottom-up aid.​

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