Development dynamics

• Colonialism is the political control of one county over another
• Top down development is where richer individual and larger companies are the thriving force behind economic growth
• Bottom up development aims to lift individuals out of poverty by helping them directly
• Tnc - a firm that owns or controls productive operations in more than one country through foreign direct investment
• Ngo is a national or international orgaorganisation which is distinct from governmental or intergovernmental agencies
• Peru micro hydro electricity ( bottom up )

  To provide local people with electricity

  Funded by practical action and local people

  • Provided jobs
  • Low price for electricity
  • Children ca do recreational activities
  • Increase in safety
  • Better built roads
  • Encourages people to move
  • Local people have to take out loans
  • Helped 80 families
  • Creates conflict with neighbouring villages
• Three gorges dam ( top down )

  create more energy , to control yangtze river, stop flooding

  funded by China development bank, contributions from other countries like France and Brazil

  • Transport made easier
  • Provides employment
  • No power cuts
  • Farmers have no income
  • People are displaced
  • Destruction of ecosystems
  • River water is more polluted
• Globalisation is the increasing interconnectedness of people , culture and politics around the world
• Indian site and situation

  India is a country in the continent of Asia. India borders the countries of China, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, Myanmar, Bhutan. India has the bay of bengal to the east and the Arabian sea to the west . Its capital is new Delhi
• India is in the goldilocks position for trade
• Push factor encourages people to move away
• Pull factor something that attract people to move there
• GDP is the total value of goods and services produced by a country in a year
• GNI is the wealth made within and outside a country this is used as a measure of national wealth
• 5 stages of rostow modernisation theory

  Traditional society

  Preconditions for take off

  Take off (industrial revolution)

  Drive to maturity ( tertiary more jobs in service )

  Age of mass consumption