Geography

• what is poverty?

  when you dont have enough resources to meet your basic needs

  
• what is poverty line? 


  when a sum of money is used to define the amount of poverty in a country
• what's inequality?

  when wealth and access to services aren't shared equally
• Factors that affects a country

  • poverty
  • water supply
  • sanitization
  • climate change
  • inequality
• How can poor sanitization and unsafe water harm humans?

  it can spread diseases which makes us fall ill and pass away if we cant afford medical care
• what is extreme poverty?


  when you have less than 1.90 dollars a day to life on
• what are the three levels of development?

  developed, developing and emerging
• what is development?


  The process of growth and change that improves peoples lives.
• what are the three obstacles for development?

  1. lack of money
  2. war and pandemics -> which can reverse development
  3. climate change
• what is the gap between the poorest and richest countries called?

  the development gap
• how is development measured

  you need to ask questions and collect data. Its collected within most countries every year. Its then converted into development indicators
• What is A development indicator?

  Its what helps show you how developed a country is
• Examples of development indicators?

  • GNI PER PERSON
  • life expectancy
  • % of population with access to clean water
  • no of doctors per 100,000 people
  • % of children under 5 that are underweight
• what is life expectancy?

  how long people are expected to live on average.
• what's GNI?

  its a crude indicator. its used to measure development
• what's HDI?

  (human development index) used to compare countries
• Aspects of development?

  • life expectancy
  • access to education
  • a decent standard of livig
• how does HDI Change?

  Climate change, conflicts and civil wars , development high HDI high
• mortality?


  death rate
• What is Malawi?

  Its one of the worlds poorest countries .
• features of malawi

  • 51% in poverty
  • 80% lives on farming
  • Tobaccos their main export
  • long thin country in SouthEast Africa
  • More than 19m people
• What are Malawis exports?

  • Tobacco
  • Sugar
  • Tea
  • Cotton
• Why is malawis average class 80 students?

  They dont have many teachers
• what are the three aspects of development?

  • life expectancy
  • access to education
  • a decent standard of living
• How does HDI Change?


  Development higher - hdi higher

  climate change
• What's globalization?


  The process if making the world more interconnected using the movement of goods, services , capital and knowledge
• What's propelling globalization?

  TNCs
• what's a transnational corporation?


  businesses that function and have branches throughout numerous countries
• What do TNCs do to maximize their profits?

  they operate in low income nations
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  3 advantages of TNCs?

  • The industry grows
  • More job opportunities
  • Foreign TNCs help build the nation
• 2 disadvantages of TNCs?

  • TNCs are only in for the profit
  • They pay little tax and have too much influence on the government
• What's the aim of TNCs


  Obtain materials for cheap and to earn money from low paid customers. They also like to be close to large populations to sell more
• When was covid declared a pandemic?

  march 11th
• What agreement was unsuccessful in covid times?

  the preparation agreement from 2005 (196 countries)
• What were the scientists discoveries about Covid?

  1. that it spread in our breaths and coughs
• What was the estimate for the vaccine making vs actually how long it took?

  10 - 15 years - estimate while it took less than a year
• How did they make the vaccine so fast?

  • teamwork
  • using advanced tools from the quaternary sector
  • Lots of donations from high income countries
• Who got the vaccines first?

  The wealthiest countries because they preordered them
• What did the wealthy countries do when buying vaccines

  they purchases 5X more than they neede
• what does vaccine diplomacy mean?

  offering free vaccines to poorer countries.