Geography Development Gap

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Access to safe drinking water
The percentage of the population have access to safe drinking water
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People Per Doctor
The number of doctors per thousand people
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Human Development Index (HDI)
A measure of development that uses 4 indicators (life expectancy,education, literacy rate and average number of years in education and GDP per capita) each indicator is given a score and it is the average of the four scores
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Birth Rate
The number of live births per thousand per year
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Life Expectancy
The number of years a person is expected to live
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Literacy Rate
The percentage of adults in the country who can read and write sufficiently
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Death Rate
The number of deaths per thousand per year
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GNP
A measure of the wealth of the country per person which is calculated by looking at the wealth generated from producing goods and services then divided by person. However it does not take into account some business taxes and overseas earnings
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GNI
Measure of the country's wealth per person including foreign earnings
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Infant Mortality Rate
The number of babies (0 to 12 months) dying per thousand live births
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Primary Industry
Businesses that work with raw materials e.g. farmers and fishermen
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Secondary Industry
Businesses that manufacture raw materials
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Tertiary Industry
Providing a service or selling goods
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Quartenary Industry
Developing new products
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Trade Surplus
Exporting more than importing
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Trade Deficit
Spending more on imported goods than money gained from exports
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Bilateral Aid
One Country to another
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Multilateral Aid
An organisation comes together to loan to a country this loan has to be paid back and has interest
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Tied Aid
Giving a country age but only if they do something in return
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Short Term Aid
Instead of money food water shelter etc is offered
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Long Term Aid
Giving aid which will benefit the country for the future e.g. farms, drought resistant crops and houses
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Conservation Swaps
financial transactions in which a portion of a developing nation's foreign debt is forgiven in exchange for local investments in environmental conservation measures.
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Trading Groups
Countries group to increase the amount of trade and the value of trade between the countries
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Fair Trade
A way of helping farmers in poorer countries to improve their lives. products are at an agreed minimum
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Debt Abolition
When debt is cancelled. on 2 conditions. 1. the country must prove they are not corrupt and that they can handle there own finance. 2.the countuires must spend the saved money on education,healthcare,and reducing poverty
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The number of doctors per thousand people

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People Per Doctor

Card 3

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A measure of development that uses 4 indicators (life expectancy,education, literacy rate and average number of years in education and GDP per capita) each indicator is given a score and it is the average of the four scores

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Card 4

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The number of live births per thousand per year

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Card 5

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The number of years a person is expected to live

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