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1. What is GDP
GDP per capita is the total value of goods and services divided by the
per capita?
people who live in a country.
2. What is GNI
GNI per capita is the GDP with the money created by TNCs but also
per capita? includes debt.
3. What is PPP? PPP is what money will buy you in that country, rather than
international market exchange rates which distort real differences.
4. Why is PPP is PPP is a better economic measure than GDP because it takes into
a better consideration the cost of living in a location. Currencies may be
econom-ic manipulated so PPP is a fairer comparison. It measures quality of life.
measure than
GDP?
5. What is HDI? (this HDI gives a country a score based on the average life expectancy,
literacy rate and
is socioeconom-ic) the GDP or GNI?
6. What is a
strength of
the HDI?
7. What is Gini
co-efficient?
(this is
socioeconomi
c)
8. Why is the
Gini coefficient
better than
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me. The HDI groups country. However, it does not include environmental.
development into four
levels. The calculation is
between 0 and 1, with the The Gini coeflcient measures how equally income is distributed. The value is
higher the number the between 0 and 1. The closer to 1 the more unevenly spread incomes
more developed the are. If the score was 0 it would mean everyone in a country has
country. exactly the same income, if the score is 1 it means one person holds
all the money in that country.
HDI contains social and
economic indicators so GDP and GNI are both averages, the problem with averages is that they can
gives a better reflection of hide extremes within data. The USA has one of the highest GDP in the
the development of a world, but this income is spread unequally.
9.
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What is the Cor-The Corruption Perceptions Index grades countries from highly corrupt to very
ruption clean. The more corrupt a country is the lower their quality of life will be.
Percep-tions
Index?
stage 1 death rates are high and fluctuating and birth rates are high.
10. What happens
at Stage 1 of
the DTM?
stage 2 death rates fall, but birth rates stay high. This leads population
11. What happens growth.
at Stage 2 of
the DTM?
12. What happensstage 3 death rates are now low and stable and birth rate begin to fall,
at Stage 3 of population growth continues to rise steeply.
the DTM?
13. What happensstage 4 birth rates are low and fluctuating and death rates are low.
at Stage 4 of
the DTM?
14. Why does the Women get educated, so have more opportunity for employment, delaying
birth rate when they start a family, leading to fewer children.
decline as a
country de-
velops?
Death rate declines as a country develops because health care systems
15. Why does improve leading to people living longer raising the life expectancy.
the death Furthermore, infant
rate de-
cline as a country mortality falls also decreasing death rate. This is because there is
better water
develops? 16. What demo-graphic data is
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supply and sanitation.
A first step between
the age groups 0-4
and 5-9 shows infant
mortality rate, the
steps between age
groups shows death
rate, the size of the
base shows birth rate,
the width of the top
of the pyramid shows
life expectancy.
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1. What is GDP
GDP per capita is the total value of goods and services divided by the
per capita?
people who live in a country.
2. What is GNI
GNI per capita is the GDP with the money created by TNCs but also
per capita? includes debt.
3. What is PPP? PPP is what money will buy you in that country, rather than
international market exchange rates which distort real differences.
4. Why is PPP is PPP is a better economic measure than GDP because it takes into
a better consideration the cost of living in a location. Currencies may be
econom-ic manipulated so PPP is a fairer comparison. It measures quality of life.
measure than
GDP?
5. What is HDI? (this HDI gives a country a score based on the average life expectancy,
literacy rate and
is socioeconom-ic) the GDP or GNI?
6. What is a
strength of
the HDI?
7. What is Gini
co-efficient?
(this is
socioeconomi
c)
8. Why is the
Gini coefficient
better than
, DEVELOPMENT DYNAMICS EXAM & VERIFIED
CORRECT ANSWERS 100% SUCCESS
me. The HDI groups country. However, it does not include environmental.
development into four
levels. The calculation is
between 0 and 1, with the The Gini coeflcient measures how equally income is distributed. The value is
higher the number the between 0 and 1. The closer to 1 the more unevenly spread incomes
more developed the are. If the score was 0 it would mean everyone in a country has
country. exactly the same income, if the score is 1 it means one person holds
all the money in that country.
HDI contains social and
economic indicators so GDP and GNI are both averages, the problem with averages is that they can
gives a better reflection of hide extremes within data. The USA has one of the highest GDP in the
the development of a world, but this income is spread unequally.
9.
,DEVELOPMENT DYNAMICS EXAM & VERIFIED
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What is the Cor-The Corruption Perceptions Index grades countries from highly corrupt to very
ruption clean. The more corrupt a country is the lower their quality of life will be.
Percep-tions
Index?
stage 1 death rates are high and fluctuating and birth rates are high.
10. What happens
at Stage 1 of
the DTM?
stage 2 death rates fall, but birth rates stay high. This leads population
11. What happens growth.
at Stage 2 of
the DTM?
12. What happensstage 3 death rates are now low and stable and birth rate begin to fall,
at Stage 3 of population growth continues to rise steeply.
the DTM?
13. What happensstage 4 birth rates are low and fluctuating and death rates are low.
at Stage 4 of
the DTM?
14. Why does the Women get educated, so have more opportunity for employment, delaying
birth rate when they start a family, leading to fewer children.
decline as a
country de-
velops?
Death rate declines as a country develops because health care systems
15. Why does improve leading to people living longer raising the life expectancy.
the death Furthermore, infant
rate de-
cline as a country mortality falls also decreasing death rate. This is because there is
better water
develops? 16. What demo-graphic data is
,DEVELOPMENT DYNAMICS EXAM & VERIFIED
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supply and sanitation.
A first step between
the age groups 0-4
and 5-9 shows infant
mortality rate, the
steps between age
groups shows death
rate, the size of the
base shows birth rate,
the width of the top
of the pyramid shows
life expectancy.
