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• development


  how far a country has technologically, economically grown and the typical quality of life
• GNI


  gross national income

  total value of all the goods and services produced by its population

  income earned from investments that its people and businesses have made overseas

  • doesn't show quality of health and education - lie - conflict
• birth/death rate


  how many people are born/die in a country per year
• infant mortality


  number of babies who die under 1 years old per 1000 babies born
• doctor to patient ratio


  how many people per doctor
• literacy rate


  percentage of adults who can read and write
• access to drinking water


  percentage of people who can get clean drinking water
• life expectancy


  average age a person is expected to live to
• HDI


  human development index

  uses - literacy rate, life expectancy, GNI, educational level
• primary


  extract raw material
• secondary 


  manufacture of the raw materials
• tertiary 


  provide a service to someone
• quaternary 


  involves high-tech industry
• Clarke-fisher model

  
• demographic transition model

  
• Population pyramid


  a graph that shows the distribution of various age groups in a population
• development gap 


  difference in levels of development between the richest and the poorest countries -

  causes - colonialism, land-locked, disease, disaster, trade, debt, gov,
• inequality


  difference between poverty and wealth and peoples well beings and access to things like jobs, housing and education
• migration 


  people changing there permeant residence and move from one place to another
• immigration


  move into a country
• emigration


  move out of a country
• economic migrant


  a person who moved voluntarily for a better life - job
• refugee


  someone who is forced out of there home due to war or natural disaster
• displaced person


  a person forced to move but stays within their country
• TNC

  transcontinental corporation

  global company

  head office = HIC

  factories = LIC
• short term aid


  given after a natural disaster as relief, eg medicine
• long term aid


  aid over a long period of time to help a country develop
• top down aid


  large organisations or gov provide aid to governments
• bottom up 


  money given by NGO directly to local people
• industrial structure


  the relative proportion of the workforce employed in different sectors of the economy - primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary
• globalisation 


  the process which has created a more connected world with an increase in movement of goods and people worldwide
• de-industrialisation


  the decline in a countries traditional manufacturing industry due to exhaustion of raw materials, loss of market and competition from NEE's
• science park


  a group of technologically and scientifically based building in one area (usually a university campus)
• business parks


  area of land occupied by lots of businesses
• sustainability


  development that meets the needs of the present without limiting the ability of future generations to meet their own needs
• counter urbanisation 


  movement from cities into the countryside
• green belt 


  green open space around cities where there is strict planning permission to prevent urban sprawl
• multiplier effect


  TNC's set up factory

  factory workers earn more money

  locals spend more money

  gov gets more money from tax

  gov invests in infrastructure
• north south divide


  real/ imagined cultural and economic divide between the north and south of the UK