Changing the economic world

• What are Physical factors that cause uneven development?

  • Poor climate
  • natural disasters
• What are economic factors that cause uneven development?

  • Lots of debt
• What historical factors cause uneven development?

  • colonisation
  • war
• How does climate change cause uneven development?

  • Crops are not suitable to grow in extreme climate, leading to malnutrition and famine
  • Fewer crops to sell meaning country will lack the finances to improve services in their country
• How does an increase in natural disasters cause uneven development?

  • spending lots of money on rebuilding destroyed infrastructure. This limits the amount of money the government can spend on development projects.
• How does debt contribute to uneven development?

  • Lots of LICs have to borrow money, which means that money has to be paid back, leaving them with a reduced amount of money to spend on their county's development.
• How does colonisation contribute to uneven development?

  • Profit went to the colonisers not the colonised countries
• How does conflict contribute to uneven development?

  • Money is spent on weapons and rebuilding the destroyed infrastructure after the war
• What are factors that reduce development gap?

  • fairtrade
  • debt relief
  • aid
  • Microfinance loans
• How does fair trade work?

  Increasing the price of some products (e.g bananas, coffee and chocolate) so that farmers in LiCs get a fair income
• How does debt relief work?

  Is when a country debt is reduced or the interest rates are lower so that the country can have enough money to development their country
• how does aid work?

  Money or resources is given to an LIC by an HIC. This money can be used for building schools, dams and wells
• What are examples of international aid?

  • Cafod
  • oxfam
  • Action aid
• What are some ways of measuring development?

  • GNI
  • Birth rates
  • death rates
  • infant mortality rates
  • literacy rates
  • life expectancy
• what is GNI?

  The income a country gets from goods produced every year
• What is birth rates?

  The amount of babies born per thousand every year
• What is death rates?

  The amount of people that die per thousand every year
• What is infant mortality rates?

  The amount of babies that die under the age of 1 or 2 per thousand
• What is literacy rates?

  The percentage of adults that can read and write
• What is life expectancy?

  An average age a person lives to
• What is the best way of measure development?

  Using HDI
• What is a limitation of using techniques that measure development?

  Lost data

  corruption, leading to fake information
• What is a case study fact about Fair trade?

  In 2016, Fairtrade tea farmers in Malawi spent some of their extra money on school and hospital
• What is a case study fact about international aid?

  The Uk provided £180 million in aid to South Sudan
• What is our case study for tourism?

  st lucia
• 500 people were employed at a time were there was lots unemployment - St Lucia
• 95% of staff were locals - St Lucia
• The hotel was its own farm so transportation of food wasn't needed - St Lucia