Economic Development KS3

Development is about...

• Building large cities

• People getting richer

• Improving peoples quality of life

• Making people happier

What is the best definition of poverty?

• Not having the latest iphone

• Not being able to afford new clothing

• not having enough money to meet basic needs including food, clothing and shelter

• Being homeless, not having food and wearing old clothes.

What are the Sustainable development goals

• Targets, set by the UN, to try achieve by 2030

• A competition to see which country can develop most by 2020.

• Each country is given certain targets to reach by 2025

• The millennium goals reached a level of development, countries now need to keep at that level.

Under normal circumstances countries develop gradually over time. Suggest circumstances where a country might actually become less developed. Select 2 options.

• Corruption

• War

• Recession

• Natural disaster

• Poor harvest

The Human Development Index (HDI) is an indicator of how developed a country is. Select the 2 components that the HDI considers. (You have extra time)

• How many cars people have.

• How many people have access to water

• How many people have enough food to eat

• How many people have access to safe drinking water

• How many people get ill

Select 2 more components that the HDI considers.

• The % of population who are literate (can read and write)

• How many people own mobile phones

• Life expectancy

• how many babies people have

• The continent people live on

What is GDP

• Gross development production

• General developed place

• Generally developed population

• Gross domestic product

What does GDP refer to

• The value of goods and services produced by a country

• The number of people living in a country

• The average wage of the population

• Its how many points the country has gained on the HDI from the previous year.

A country described as an MEDC is...

• More developed

• less developed

• newly industrialised

• Money efficient

An MEDC can also be called

• Third world

• High Income Country (HIC)

• Middle Income Country (MIC)

• Low Income country (LIC)