Geography

Geography

1. Human Factors Impacting Development:

   • Corruption
     • Congo
       • Fixed by: 'Reseting' the government or empose and enforce strict laws against corruption
   • Poor management
     • Congo
       • Fixed by: Bring in officials from other countries to help/ employ new advisors
   • Civil War
     • Somalia
       • Fixed by: Bring in external forces e.g. the UN to organise peace treaties
   • Colonialism
     • Senegal
       • Fixed by: Father country could help them and give them knowledge and democracy.
   • Lack of Economic Growth
     • Congo
       • Give more opportunities for trade agreements, allow to exploit what could make it rich ~(natural resources and minerals)~
   • Income inequality
     • Qatar
       • Fixed by: Helping smaller business to grow, increasing taxes in high bands and removing monopolies

2. Age-sex graphs for LICs and HICs

3. Demographic Transition Model

4. Jared Diamond's theory

   • A country's state today is down to its geographical 'luck'
     • Haiti
       • Wet and dry seasons
         • Deforestation
       • Floods, hurricane, 230k earthquakes fault line
     • Norway
       • Oil
       • Tourism
       • Fishing and timber
       • Farming 50/50
       • 61 degrees

5. GNH

   • The idea of Gross National Happiness was introduced by Bhutan’s fourth dragon king. In 1972, at the age of 17 who had a philosophy of a good country not based on economic growth and wellbeing, that could cause damage to people, their emotions and their environment in general. Therefore, a countries development should also be measured in it’s happiness. It considers living standard, time use, psychological wellbeing, health, community vitality, governance, environment diversity, culture and education.

6. IHDI

   • It takes into account a range of factors including standard of living (income), life expectancy (health) as well as literacy (education).
   • The UN Human Development Index is a a table expressing how developed a country. It highlights that the capabilities of the population are the most important area of a country to assess.

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