Development Geo

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  • development
    • key words
      • GDP(Gross Domestic Product) -It is the total value of goods and services produced by a country in a year.
      • HDI-Human Development Index (HDI)This is a measure of development used by the UN which combines indicators of life expectancy, educational attainment and income into one measure.
      • Literacy rate - is the percentage of people in a sample population or country that have the ability to read and write.
      • Birth rate -is the number of babies born every year per 1000 people in a population
      • death rate -Death Rate is the term used to define the number of deaths every year per 1000 people in a population.
      • Political corruption- is the misuse of public power
      • The Happy Planet Index  (HPI) is an index of human well-being and environmental impact. The index is weighted to give progressively higher scores to nations with lower ecological footprints.
    • Factors that affect Development
      • Climate: Africa suffers from a lack of rainfall meaning droughts are common this results in crops suffering. There are certain diseases which thrive in tropical climates, such as malaria and yellow fever, because due to hot and humid conditions.
      • Natural hazards-Floods, droughts and earthquakes can limit future growth and destroy buildings and agricultural areas, meaning a country may divert income to help recover from these events.
      • Natural resources: such as minerals, gas and oil can help improve a country's level of development. However this is closely tied in with the ability to exploit the resource for the benefit of the country.
      • Landlocked countries: 16 countries in Africa are landlocked. This means it is more difficult to trade as goods have to be driven through other countries to get to the coast for shipping.
    • Uneven development around the world:
  • India:       India is an example of a newly industrialised country (NIC). Each year thousands of people move to the city of Mumbai from rural areas
    • Uneven development around the world:
    • People move to Mumbai because the city has lots of pull factors such as: social - better housing and services, eg healthcare and education economic - more jobs and higher wages environmental - better living conditions with a safer environment (less chance of natural disasters)
    • People who move think that they will have a better quality of life. However, cities such as Mumbai face lots of challenges, Some of the challenges they may face include: social - poor housing conditions and crime economic - low wages or unemployment environmental - polluted drinking water and a lack of sanitation
  • Lots of people migrate to the UK in hope of finding a job and better housing but some are not lucky as it is not easy to live in the UK due to the higher housing prices and even though there is good salary it is still not easy to maintain living a good, wealth life
    • Uneven development in the UK
      • There is uneven distribution of wealth and income in London. Many foreigners end up coming to the UK London in general to find good living conditions but end up with many challenges. People born and raised in the UK are most likely to be live in good conditions
      • development
        • key words
          • GDP(Gross Domestic Product) -It is the total value of goods and services produced by a country in a year.
          • HDI-Human Development Index (HDI)This is a measure of development used by the UN which combines indicators of life expectancy, educational attainment and income into one measure.
          • Literacy rate - is the percentage of people in a sample population or country that have the ability to read and write.
          • Birth rate -is the number of babies born every year per 1000 people in a population
          • death rate -Death Rate is the term used to define the number of deaths every year per 1000 people in a population.
          • Political corruption- is the misuse of public power
          • The Happy Planet Index  (HPI) is an index of human well-being and environmental impact. The index is weighted to give progressively higher scores to nations with lower ecological footprints.
        • Factors that affect Development
          • Climate: Africa suffers from a lack of rainfall meaning droughts are common this results in crops suffering. There are certain diseases which thrive in tropical climates, such as malaria and yellow fever, because due to hot and humid conditions.
          • Natural hazards-Floods, droughts and earthquakes can limit future growth and destroy buildings and agricultural areas, meaning a country may divert income to help recover from these events.
          • Natural resources: such as minerals, gas and oil can help improve a country's level of development. However this is closely tied in with the ability to exploit the resource for the benefit of the country.
          • Landlocked countries: 16 countries in Africa are landlocked. This means it is more difficult to trade as goods have to be driven through other countries to get to the coast for shipping.
  • Causes of uneven development
    • Limited water supplies
    • corrupt governments
    • Poorer education facilities
    • smaller volume of trade
    • food reduced as there is poor climate (food can't grow)
      • less food to sell meaning no income
        • government gets less tax meaning to money to develop country
  • Malawi is one of the ten poorest countries in the world with a GDP of only US$900 and half of its population living below the poverty line. There are many economic, social, environmental reasons for Malawi’s lack of development.
    • Malawi: Case study
      • Location: Malawi is a landlocked country in southeastern Africa, bordered by Zambia to the northwest, Tanzania to the northeast and Mozambique to the south, southwest and southeast.
      • E.g, Malawi has huge overseas debts which means that much of GDP is used paying them off so there is less money left for development. We can use development indicators to measure Malawi’s development. ed
      • A life expectancy of 52     (indicates Malawi isn't very developed)
        • High levels of Malaria; Poor healthcare service – no access to healthcare; High prevalence of HIV/AIDs; Famine and drought; No access to clean and safe drinking water
      • A literacy rate of 61%
        • Not many people attend full time education; A poor education system that isn’t accessible to everyone
          • The majority of the population is only educated enough to work in the primary and secondary sectors and a lack of skilled workers mean TNCs are less likely to invest in the country.
  • Malawi is landlocked and suffers from extreme weather
    • Malawi finds it hard to trade and so can’t develop economically. Extreme weather sets Malawi back as the government has to concentrate on relief for the population rather than development
    • Malawi: Case study
      • Location: Malawi is a landlocked country in southeastern Africa, bordered by Zambia to the northwest, Tanzania to the northeast and Mozambique to the south, southwest and southeast.
      • E.g, Malawi has huge overseas debts which means that much of GDP is used paying them off so there is less money left for development. We can use development indicators to measure Malawi’s development. ed
      • A life expectancy of 52     (indicates Malawi isn't very developed)
        • High levels of Malaria; Poor healthcare service – no access to healthcare; High prevalence of HIV/AIDs; Famine and drought; No access to clean and safe drinking water
      • A literacy rate of 61%
        • Not many people attend full time education; A poor education system that isn’t accessible to everyone
          • The majority of the population is only educated enough to work in the primary and secondary sectors and a lack of skilled workers mean TNCs are less likely to invest in the country.

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