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Chp 9 White B QA
Question | Answer |
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what was the main idea in the first case study | the condtions of poor women overburrned with childern are one of the factors holding back economic development in S. Asia |
what are the three factors development is based on | economic, social, and demoraphic |
what are the four factors that help indicate Economic development | types of jobs, gross domestic per capita, productivity, and counsumer goods |
what are the 3 factors that indicate socal development | education and literacy and health and wealthfare |
what are the 4 factors that indicate demographic development | life expectancy infant moratilty rate natural increase rate and crude birth rate |
what id the highest HDI | 1.0 |
who has the higest HDI and who has the lowest | norways and niger |
how do they get the Gross domestic value | they dived the GDP by the amount of people in the country only measures the arveage |
what are the 3 groups jobs are divied into | primary,secoundary and tertiary |
example of primary | agriculture jobs like farmers |
example of secoundary | manufacturers |
example of territary | services |
what had GDP calculated in MDC and LDC for primary | lower in LDC higer in MDC |
What had the GDP caluclated in MDC and LDC for secoundary | decrease in MDC less in LDC |
What had the gdp calculated in MDC and LDC for Territary | MDC and LDC coutinues to increase |
how is productitivy measured | by the value added per capita |
who produces more with out more labor | MDC |
What are counsumer goods | anything people can buy nessecittes and part of the wealth made in a country |
what has technology done with LDC and MDC | reduced the gap between each other |
why have cell phones increased in LDC | the dont require the costly land lines only a tower |
where does some of MDC wealth go to | education, health |
if countries are high in development what does that mean about its edu | they have a higher level of edu and literacy |
what are the literacy rates in MDC and LDC | 98% in MDC less than 60 % in LDC |
Who recevies more calories between LDC and MDC | MDC are healthier |
how is welfare used in MDC | taken from wealth and protect poor people |
In what part of the world has the highesr level of public assistance | NW europe denmark norway |
Who lives longer | people in MDC Females live longer |
who has a higer rate of older people | MDC |
what are the NIR in LDC and MDC | 1.5 in LDC .2 in MDC A greater NIR harder to support the people |
what are the crude birth rates in LDC and MDC | 23 per 1000 in LDC 12 per 1000 in MDC |
Why do we not use CDR | Ldc have alower CDR because of MDC supplying them with medical tech |
describe the HDI in North america | high GDP and literacy rate than edu and life expectancy, Worlds largest food exporter, provides entertaiment, used to be leading etal manufactuer |
Describe Europe HDI | Cold war breaking up made them closer largest and richest market, EU made HDI lower dependent on trade |
Describe Russian HDI | Under communist everything was planned after the left communist turned to market economy standard living changed |
Describe Japan HDI | Development is so remarakable because they have more ppl than resources but depend on manufavcturing with skilled ppl |
Describe Latin America HDI | Highest level of development is found on the coast |
Describe East Asia HDI | not developing because middle managment is weak quality contorl is minimal banking is small and is strainging resources |
Describe SW Asia and N Africa | oil is the main economic asset have a low status of women trying to keep culture ways causing internal disputes |
Describe SE Asia | low because of limited resources from geography |
Describe South Asia | more ppl than resourses hard to develope india is biggest economy provider |
Describe Sub Sahara Africa | High proverty low health and edu |
what does walmart show | globalazation and distan decay |
where did walmart spreadf | started in arkansa spread to the south then to everywhere |
how is the gender related development index measured | with the same factors used for HDI |
What are the factors for gender related development | economic- per captia female income vs male social- # of females in school compared to males \ Demographic- life expectancy of females vs males |
What does the GDI do if the gap between the sexes are to wide | penalize a country if equal GDI equals 1.0 |
what factors are used to measure gender empowerment | economic- female income vs male income and professional jobs women do political- indicators % of adminstrative jobs held by women vs members of the national earliment who are women |
Is GEM or GDI higher | GEM in very country |
what are the 2 obstacles LDC face for development | adopting policies that promote development and findinf funds for development |
what are the 2 ways to promote development | slef sufficiency or international trade |
describe self sufficiency | done through balance of power, protect small companys, set barriers that limit impory and trade |
what model do countries go by through international trade | rostows development |
what is rostows development ( first 3) | 1.Trading society- has not developed yet many workers in primary money goes to gov and religion 2.Preconditions of take off- a group under influence innovate economic activites increase productivity 3. Take off- rapid growth in limited eco. activites |
Rostows ( 4-5) | 4.The drive to maturity- modern tech. diffuse of industry expierence rapid growth workers are skilled 5. Age of mass consuption-economy shifts to consumer goods |
what are the two factors the model i based of | if joining countries can become more devloped following the model others can too and LDC contain raw materials needed by MDC |
who are the 4 dragons | south korea taiwan singapore and hong cong |
describe the four dragons | didnt have no natural resources but combined and promoted development with manufactured goods low cost labor |
where does the arabian peninsula get there money | from driling |
why was thw WTO made | to promote international trade |
what did the WTO do ? | 1. made reductions in international trade restrictions 2. enforcing agreements |
where does FDI usally invest in | MDC 1/4 goes to LDC ( china gets most, sub sahara gets least ) |
where do funds come from | as loans from the bank pr direct investments from transnational corporations |
what are the world banks | International Bank for recounstruction and development- reform insitutions International development Association- support poor countries to qalify for IBRD |
what is IMF | provides loans provides loans to countries with international trade probs |
what do structural adjusments programs do | add strings attached to loans to make sure they get there money back |
what does Fair trade do | sell products that help both consumer and producer |
what practices are being used to protect producers | by giving credit lowering, raw material cost and mantain high and fair prices on their products |
what practices are being used to protect counsumers | protection of workers rights, mim=nmual wage |