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World Development
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- 1Measurements of Development:GNP
Infant mortality
Childhood mortality
Life expectancy
No. of Doctors
Access to technology
Electricity consumption
Infrastructure: rails, roads
Political stability
Poverty: MPI
Literacy levels
Access to education
Gender inequality index or GII
Clean water (sanitation) - 2What is the Human Development Index?HDI focuses on the quality of peoples lives and covers broader factors such as poverty, health chances, no. of people who have access to sanitation/clean water, technology etc.
- 3Why is GDP per capita used rather than GDP? What is a problem with using per capita?Per capita allows us to see how money is evenly distributed between each person. However, it isn't always accurate as it is just an average.
- 4Which countries have the highest and lowest HDI?Highest: Norway
Lowest: Niger - 5What is the Happy Planet Index?HPI gives us the advantage of comparing the quality of life of people. It measures progress.
However Friends of the Earth argue that we need to find a completely different way to approach measurements of human well-being a happiness as well as environmental concerns. - 6What two methods of measuring development do you think is the best way to COMPARE development between countries?HDI and HPI because they're in more depth and we can compare money and happiness rather than just compare the wealth of different countries as that is not what the world should actually revolve around, it is a mind set we have created.
- 7Why does development take place?It mainly came about in the 1950's/60's within the modernisation theory. This theory saw the USA as the desirable 'end product' of development; the pattern of living standards of which all countries should aspire to.
- 8Who argued that it was the West who promoted development for purely selfish reasons; their own social and economic wellbeing. - Poor countries increase their purchasing power, allowing more international trade and opens up more markets for Western manufactured goods.Kingsbury et al
- 9Maggie Black?Black says that a genuine feeling of a desire by the rich countries to help the poor lies behind the increased focus on aid and development in the 80's. - Reports on fundraising seen on television that touched the hearts of the rich countries.
- 10Dan RemenyiArgues that since the 80'sk, Western gov's have cut back on aid. At the same time,
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- A-Level World Flashcards on World Development, created by Georgia Davidson on 03/01/2016.
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